“Michael Dell today told those at a Hong Kong gathering that his company would have a ‘significant number of new tablets’ in 2011,” Electronista reports. “He stopped short of detailing the plans but characterized his firm as experimenting with what would work. The executive wasn’t certain the iPad had established a full market and didn’t want to commit to a particular formula for his launch plans. ‘There’s lots of debate about the size of the market, who’s buying these devices, and those questions always emerge when there’s a new form factor,’ he said.”
Electronista reports, “Dell so far is only selling the five-inch Streak, which it has characterized as a crossover between a tablet and a phone, but plans to launch its seven-inch Looking Glass tablet in the near future and its 10-inch variant within the next several months. With the exception of its Inspiron Duo convertible Windows 7 netbook, all of the tablet designs will run customized versions of Android.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Who’s a worse CEO, Michael Dell or Steve Ballmer?
We don’t know who is buying these devices or why, but we’re going to be out there selling some piece of shit to anyone who won’t buy Apple products, count on that!
Michael Dell is worse. Ballmer didn’t destroy the profit margins on each and every product line.
@MDN they are both misfits. One has to be out of their minds to even consider purchasing one of their products. Who’s going to answer the customer support lines for tech support? Ghandi??
How’s the basketball business these days, Mikey baby!
(it is basketball, isn’t it?)
Oh, wow. Another piece of rubbish that thinks to rival the iPad. X3 Cant wait to see what failures Dell will commit.
You are Mickey
Dellusional you are Mickey
Just throwing more crap into the market and seeing if anyone buys it.
A “significant number”. This notion that more choices than you can shake a stick at is stupid.
As Jobs once said, Dell is a mere distributor of other companies’ technologies. They don’t create *anything* of their own.
Mr. Dell looks pissed. lol
back in 2003, didn’t Dell introduce a slew of products aimed to take a lead in the consumer electronics market, including their blockbuster selling line of MP3 players?
good thing they kept the dellditty.com domain name, maybe they can reuse it for their sure-to-be-equally-successful line of tablets
“Michael Dell today told those at a Hong Kong gathering that his company would have a ‘significant number of new tablets’ in 2011.”
The only thing is, Mikey forgot to add the rest of the sentence: “We’ll offer a ‘significant number of new tablets’ next year… the only thing is, they won’t really be able to *do* anything significant. But buy one anyway because, you know, it’s cheap and it’s from Dell.”
MaWo: ‘living’. As in, “… in a dream.”
Time to ICal again.
Alot of Apple haters…so be it! I was and always will be Microsoft/PeeCee hater… and look where it’s gotten me!! Beautiful products, state of the art OSs, and the most cutting edge technology. PeeCee (and now Android) guys get…one thing…cheap. cheap disposable crap… enjoy!
“He likes it! Hey Mikey!”
The strategy of carpet bombing with different types of devices really worked for Creative with mp3 players.
At least Dell presumably will have a somewhat decent tablet OS in Android…when the next version comes out.
Now, if he had said “a number of significant new tablets”, we would all have believed him of course. He’s just been misquoted!
Dell will build their tablets, and I’ll bet they succeed in selling hundreds of them!
‘There’s lots of debate about the size of the market, who’s buying these devices, and those questions always emerge when there’s a new form factor,’ he said.”
I think the only debate is whether or not Dell will be around in 5 years.
Put him in a smock and he passes for the village idiot.
He’s waiting for MS to pony up the cash to go No-Android…
Cross eyed bugger. Looks like a future didler and pedophile.
They’re going to offer a significant number of new cow pies next year? …one can hardly wait…