Todd Bishop at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer talks about Lenovo's new Tablet PCs, and how Dell is the only major player NOT in the Tablet market at this point. Quote the Raven:
"We have no immediate plans to get into the Tablet PC business," said Dell spokeswoman Anne Camden. "The market is still very small."
Oh Dell. How can such a smart company be SO DUMB? Whoever you have crafting your strategy there whould be fired. If you can't do it, get Trump to do it for you.
One of the main reasons the Tablet business is so small is because you're not playing in it yet. Wake up and smell the consumers! You guys are the #1 marketer to the average computing consumer. If you guys had a Tablet, a smart ad campaign from the Dell Dude (fresh out of Rehab or wherever), and had the same financing options you do now, you'd have a LOT more Tablet sales.
You guys used to take risks. You guys used to be innovative. Why are you relegating yourselves to being the last to the table out of sheer ignorance? Any move you make at this point will only leave people saying "Where the hell have you been?"
Ugh. Maybe they'll get with the program by the time Longhorn gets here. Yeah, right.