http://www.newsome.org/2009/01/me-too-phone-dell-to-release-smartphone/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2009/01/me-too-phone-dell-to-release-smartphone/comment-page-1/#comment-3282 Kent Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:09:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3591#comment-3282 Will,That's a good point. Dell's core business has turned into a commodity business. Maybe rather that trying to get out of the commodity business, Dell will try to get really good at it.If that's the case, they better do a lot of pre-release marketing. Because if they don't people will (and by the blogs posts already do) think they are trying to compete at the high-end. And if they do that, the device may get crapped all over when it comes out and never get the penetration it needs. Will,That’s a good point. Dell’s core business has turned into a commodity business. Maybe rather that trying to get out of the commodity business, Dell will try to get really good at it.If that’s the case, they better do a lot of pre-release marketing. Because if they don’t people will (and by the blogs posts already do) think they are trying to compete at the high-end. And if they do that, the device may get crapped all over when it comes out and never get the penetration it needs.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2009/01/me-too-phone-dell-to-release-smartphone/comment-page-1/#comment-3283 trumwill Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:21:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3591#comment-3283 You actually neglected to mention the #1 maker in the world, Nokia.Dell is great at doing one thing: Making things cheap. Since their devices will presumably be running Windows Mobile and/or Android, their competition isn't Apple or RIM. It's HTC, Samsung, HP, and others.The hole in the market isn't on creating something revolutionary at the top but engineering something cheap and practical at the bottom. So far nobody has really mastered that. The cheap devices I've seen have some pretty glaring quality problems and those that lack these shortcomings are more than the rest want to spend.Disclaimer: I haven't read the article. Pay-wall and all that. You actually neglected to mention the #1 maker in the world, Nokia.Dell is great at doing one thing: Making things cheap. Since their devices will presumably be running Windows Mobile and/or Android, their competition isn’t Apple or RIM. It’s HTC, Samsung, HP, and others.The hole in the market isn’t on creating something revolutionary at the top but engineering something cheap and practical at the bottom. So far nobody has really mastered that. The cheap devices I’ve seen have some pretty glaring quality problems and those that lack these shortcomings are more than the rest want to spend.Disclaimer: I haven’t read the article. Pay-wall and all that.

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