“While very few are still buying netbooks, many manufacturers have continued to release the small Intel Atom-powered computers (see Asus, Toshiba, etc.),” Joanna Stern reports for The Verge.
“However, Dell isn’t going to be one of those companies,” Stern reports. “After noticing today that its consumer Inspiron Mini netbooks were no longer available on its website (thanks Liliputing!), Dell confirmed for us that it is no longer making consumer netbooks (the business-aimed Latitude netbooks are still available on Dell.com).”
Stern reports, “Not only are the Inspiron Minis being put in the grave, but the company confirmed for us that it will not be releasing new netbooks based on Intel’s forthcoming Cedar Trail platform. In other words, it is done with the category.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: iCal icons are bouncing like madmen in our Docks:
“Windows is a better operating system than iPhone OS. It’s that simple. Although Apple’s software is robust for what it does, it’s still a mobile operating system. And that mobile operating system is trying to make a splash in a market where a far more capable operating system, which is running on the vast majority of netbooks, is waiting in the wings for corporate users. Realizing that, netbooks have an upper-hand when compared to the iPad. Apple’s tablet might be an attractive purchase to consumers, but in the corporate world, it’s being held back by its software… It’s also worth noting that a slew of Web sites use Flash to extend the functionality of pages. Owners of Windows netbooks won’t need to worry about that, since Microsoft’s operating system supports Flash… Netbooks come in all shapes and sizes from a variety of vendors. So, if a customer is happy with Dell’s computer, they can buy a netbook from that company.” – Don Reisinger, June 8, 2010
Not anymore, Donnie.
[Attribution: Daring Fireball. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
Love seeing the iCal references. That’s another C/Net so called expert called out!
“Windows is a better operating system than iPhone OS. It’s that simple.”
Even if Don knew iOS is Unix at the core, it would have not helped Don out of his simplicity. Where did he get that from??
Another one….
“And that mobile operating system is trying to make a splash in a market where a far more capable operating system, which is running on the vast majority of netbooks”
iOS is by NO means trying to make a splash, much less in that market of weathered down downsized NOTEbooks.
Can you imagine that more capable bloated operating system running in a mobile processor??
It only confirms that Donny is vying for the Three Stooges Of Technology Position. Perhaps he was sensing at that time that the bloated blowhard Dvorack was on his way out. LOL
Dell has exited:
– net books
– Android tablets
– Windows tables
– mobile
– handheld
– high end laptops
In a nutshell anything remotely consumer related. Pretty soon all Dell will be selling to,will be corporate IT doofuses.
One could construe these facts to mean that IT buyers are even dumber than ordinary consumers. That’s a very scary thought!
Sad but true
That’s been obvious for over 2 decades.
Why do tech support people recommend Dells to companies rather than Macs? As one of them told me, “Because they break!”
Don’t forget the not so famous dull ditty mp3 player and the phone that turdrot helped them develop.
Dell sells only to doofuses now.
Dell’s customer base are basically doofuses.
So, what else is new?
What’s your point? When Steve Jobs came back to Apple he streamlined the product line.
It makes sense to get out of areas that aren’t making you money.
This seems like a good business move to me. I’d be existing the netbook market as well. With tablet on the rise, most people will be looking at tablets, smartphones, higher end laptops or desktops. Cheap underpowered notebooks don’t really have much of a place any longer.
IT doofuses? You mean like the IT dept. in my community college district? We are practically a Dell-only district, which is why I turned down my college-issued Dell craptop and use my own MacBook Pro. 🙂
Dell Does What?
“Dell Does What?”
Sell bottom-of-the-bin, obsolete, outdated hardware that exclusively relies on another company’s outdated crapware. Rather, ‘copy-ware’… Er, I mean, ‘software’.
Dell will end up in the same position as RIM.
When I was young, I heard that there was a farmer in the Dell. Maybe they should sell everything, return the money to the investors and take up farming. It is slower paced and I think, with some help, Dell could make a go of farming. Get some chickens too. They are fun to fead.
Love it!
“Work on the folding, Donnie.
Bye bye.”
Dell and RIM should team up.
Flash? What’s flash?? 😉
Dell now needs to exit computing entirely and switch focus to making Billy Mays style kitchen gadgets sold through tv infomercials.
“Billy Mays style” meaning DOA.
Why was that guy always yelling at me?
Dell would have had fantastic profits if it only invested in Apple stock!
Well that would certainly be true at Xerox.
If Xerox would have held on to their pre-IPO investment in Apple to the present day, they would currently be sitting on pile of cash which is worth over $2.5 billion (6.4 million shares, after all the splits) or about 40% of the current market cap of Xerox Corp.
And the talking heads on Wall Street still can’t see the Apple Tsunami racing into the same beach that they are picking up those pretty sea shells at. Oh, there is another pretty shell. THUMP!
Bouncing Madmen — Mikey Dell and Stevie Baldmer
Back in the 90s, the entryway of every building on the Dell campus had an electronic display of the current DELL stock ticker price, because, I guess, that was the one good thing they had. Came the 00s and the monitors quietly disappeared, now just a distant dream.
God! I love this take, MDN!
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