“The return of Michael Dell to his namesake company can’t be compared to Steve Jobs’ return to Apple, Jim Cramer said on TheStreet.com TV’s Wall Street Confidential Web video Friday,” TheStreet.com reports.
“‘Jobs is a creative force,’ he told Gregg Greenberg, the host of Wall St. Confidential. ‘Dell is an efficiency of time and implementation and equipment force — an operations guy.’ Cramer said he fails to see how Dell is going to be able to maintain margins, especially with increased competition from Acer and Lenovo, two growing names in the PC market,” TheStreet.com reports.
“‘I have not been on the bandwagon that you have to buy Dell now that Michael Dell is back,’ he said. ‘And I was on the bandwagon that you have to buy Apple because Apple is a fashion play and you are able to charge a lot of money if you have a fashionable product,'” TheStreet.com reports.
“Although some might consider fashion to be ‘faddish,’ it is not so in Apple’s case, Cramer continued. And for those who believe the looks of a product don’t matter in technology, he pointed out Microsoft’s Zune, which has not been competing well against the iPod and which Cramer called ‘really ugly,'” TheStreet.com reports.
Full article, with link the Web video of Jim Cramer on TheStreet.com TV’s Wall Street Confidential, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Mentioning Michael Dell in the same breath as Steve Jobs is like mentioning Alex Michael Renfrotain in the same breath as Leonardo da Vinci. Who’s Alex Michael Renfrotain, you ask? Exactly.
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Oh I get it, MDN, that’s the guy who painted the velvet elvis in your mom’s basement.
Clever, how they make the link a google search for Alex Michael Renfrotain to prove their point. Clever…
Michael Dell is like that kid from the movie “Big” (David Moscow who played the young Tom Hanks character “Josh Baskin”) only stupider and cross-eyed.
Michael Dell is nice anagram for Decimal Hell.
Crammer gets it.
You made me google someone with less hits than me!!!
Do not take my name in vain. I’m the only one allowed to be vain.
you beat me but I’m still gonna say it….
Cramer gets it.
So much for my new life in the Witness Relocation Program, you a-holes!
Back to square one…
Cramer may get it. But, he’s still a moron.
Mentioning Michael Dell in the same breath as Steve Jobs is like walking into Macy’s, and a cross-eyed redneck wearing a wifebeater shirt asks you if you need a buggy.
Tonight on CrossFire…
Cramer and Ballmer: Who can throw a chair further?
…or farther.
@ Twisted Mac Freak
“Michael Dell is nice anagram for Decimal Hell.”
You are on a roll today. =)
My favorite ever – Paul E. Tsongas = Gaseous Plant or Get Nasal Soup.
Jim Cramer is no Cosmo Kramer.
Just my $0.02
How does Michael Dell rank on the glycemic index?
Who’s Alex Michael Renfrotain, you ask? Exactly.
I was wonder, I click on the link and the internet did not find him… now I undertend, he is nobody, just like Michael Dell compared to Steve Jobs.
Jobs was truly gone from Apple until Apple bought NeXT. Dell was never “gone” from Dell; he was the Board Chairman. It’s obvious that Michael Dell “returning” to Dell will have absolutely no impact. Dell, like Microsoft, needs new leadership.
Still haven’t washed your mouth out, eh?
Spiteful are we?
Mention Dell and the phrase “What’s the point?” comes to mind. One can’t say that about Jobs or Apple.
I was in Best Buy today, looking around at all the models of the iPod, and beside it were some Zunes, brown and black models. As I was looking between the 2, this sales guy came up and asked if I had any questions. I told him I’m already familiar with the shortcomings of the Zune. I almost asked whether they’d sold in. I wish I had.
Michael Dell: famous for making things cheaper.
Steve Jobs: famous for making things better
Of course you can’t compare them: Michael Dell never actually left the company. Another waste-of-bandwidth story.