Dell CEO: Android cannot compete with the iPad on tablets, Windows 8 has best shot

haha…I wonder how many svchost.exe files will need to run in the background on the new Windows tablet? As long as it’s not the typical clunky, overly complicated Windows approach to things, it might do well. 

He’s right and wrong. Obviously android tablets haven’t been doing well. Some of his comments are also obviously based on his own experience with the poor excuse of a tablet, aka Dell Streak. One of the worst examples of poor design, mediocre hardware, and lackluster software.

He’s wrong about the iPad consumer market as well. They’re not buying iPads because there’s a lack of good options. They’re buying iPads because they want iPads. Look at Windows phone 7. They did a lot of things right from a software perspective. It’s MUCH prettier then iOS, smoother, functional, developer friendly… etc. etc., yet it fails because the other half of the equation, the hardware, isn’t up to par. 

He’s going to be in for a rude awakening, when Dell releases a slew of Windows 8 tablets on shitty Inspiron-design inspired tablets and sells approximately 19.

Got that right.

And this would be why PC makers can’t get anywhere on a per company basis. If they don’t pull in huge numbers they give up and try something else. Dell makes 4 or 5 crappy Android devices and then automagically determine that what they say is so.

If Steve Jobs had the same attitude as Michael Dell, Apple would have folded long ago. Instead he bucked the trend and made waves with revised versions of mobile products which have been embraced by the masses.

What Michael Dell forgot to mention was.. even if Windows 8 were to get better traction than android in the tablet market.. Tablets manufactured by Dell with windows 8 will be a failure nevertheless. 

The proof is in the pudding, Monsieur Dell. Let’s see what you got.

Well I’m in for a Windows 8 tablet. It looks great so far. But MS would be playing catch up. 

Michael Dell doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the wall. Case in point? The miserable state of Dell Inc and their assorted businesses on ALL fronts. I would certainly expect Bill Gates caddy (Michael Dell) and sometime houseboy (Michael Dell) to make such idiotic statements. Michael here’s an idea, rename Dell Inc, Dell Stink.

ROTFLMFAO…..

that’ because only Windows OS able to run java applets like streaming stock quotes and streaming level II quote from web browsers!

He’s absolutely right.  Android is terrible, so it really has no shot.

lol Android

LOL

Well, he’s right. No Android tablet made by Dell can compete with the iPad because Dell has so far made subpar Android products with last year’s obsolete tech and cutting corners with the worst screens they could find, etc.

I doubt Dell will make any headway with Windows 8 if they continue with their crappy builds. Hell, Dell probably would not even be able to make a decent iPad, if Apple licensed it to them, iOS and all.

This is the same Dell who could not build an Android phone to save its life, even though everyone else could???  Yeah, Im going to listen to THIS guy….

Smh @ Dell

Maybe yes maybe not, but I would wait until tonight to make that statement…

Here’s the deal: No one is legitimately going to beat Apple in the tablet space simply because of Apple’s marketing. They were first to market with a quality product and marketed the daylights out of it, building hype among every segment of buyer. So every tablet after iPad gets measured by the bar that Apple has set. And because of this, the only legitimate competitor to iPad will be Kindle Fire, sold by the only other company with the marketing power to possibly make a dent in Apple’s sales.

Considering Windows sucks ballz on a tablet (even 8) thats good news for Apple.

BTW: does anyone even think Windows is cool anymore?   Seriously?

iPad, iPhone… benchmark.

I build, modify, and troubleshoot computers……..LOTS.

Dell Computers are ones I don’t touch.  They’re junk……like Bose, Monster Cables, etc., etc…..

Well, I would expect someone who’s company future depends upon the success of an O/S made by someone else to, you know, tow the company line…

Talk about desperate.  Is he trying to kill off his own company?

of course they can’t.  Android is terrible.

lol @ Dell … come one really your PCs and Tablets are crap anyway..

Ten of my friends have iPads, 5 of them don’t use them anymore.  I have 7 friends who have various droid Tabs and all 7 use ’em all the time.  The Difference? A lot of people buy iPads because they are funky and trending + iPads are very easy to use.  I love my Transformer but would never expect a “normal” user to like it; iPads are computers for non-computer users and droid’s are for Power-Users.  Also blame the people who sell these things, I over heard someone at a Best Buy telling a customer he can’t get Gmail on a Galaxy Tab, only iPad.  I was immediately ejected from said Best Buy for correcting the Best Buy employee.