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

Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Inc., said on Tuesday that Android tablets have failed to gain significant traction in a market dominated by Apple’s iPad, and that Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 platform has a good chance of achieving better sales. Mirroring the sentiments of countless pundits, Dell says the tablet market today is basically an iPad market, and that Apple’s competitors have failed to offer a compelling alternative at this point. “If you look at the tablet market, you have to say right now it’s an iPad market,” Dell said while speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit on Tuesday. “The Android stuff has not done fantastically well, I think I’m being fair. Microsoft has a pretty good shot with Windows 8, we’re pretty excited with what they’re doing.” Michael Dell said this past April that sales of Android tablets would overtake iPad sales just as sales of Android smartphones have surpassed the iPhone. The company’s Android-powered Streak tablet has not been a hot seller for the computer maker however, and now it appears as though any future plans for new Android tablets may be put on hold. Recent reports suggest Dell may release is first round of Windows 8 tablets in the third quarter of 2012.

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Tags: Android, Android Tablets, Apple, Dell, google, honeycomb, iOS, iPad, market share, Michael Dell, Tablets

Anonymous

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.

Anonymous

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CrossWired

Shouldn’t matter, with the kind of dual-core computing power that’s common in tablets today.

Anonymous

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.

http://twitter.com/tinotino tinotino

Dell’s lineup of 5″ and 7″ android tablets are so disguesting they should be grouped with the Chinese no name crap-tablets.
http://www.facebook.com/applelover Tim Meesseman

I’m not sure you can say WP7 is much prettier than iOS. The two designs are so vastly different, it’s largely up to personal opinion. I’ve only played with one WP7 device, but based on that experience, I certainly wouldn’t call it smoother either.

Anonymous

I agree with you Tim. Nice avatar by the way. 7-0 baby!
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/VCBEBTYM2XLKT7WBH4OWJ5QUZ4 commonsenseplease

HAHAHAHAAH.

I’m sorry…but WP7 is definitely not ‘pretty’, it’s a bunch of blocks that are not even centered on the screen. Yuck. (And this, coming from someone who has used and LIKED Windows O/S for most of his computing life).

As far as iO/S being pretty, yes, it is. Pretty monotonous.
Mark Francis

Metro goes much deeper than the main screen. Well maybe just maybe if you would just go and pickup a WP7 go in to something like the Zune marketplace and start a song playing(watch what happens) or maybe Weather Channel app(screen changes to match the weather outside) and just look at the layout and the style of the app. This is were alot of times we are coming from about Metro. Get and Iphone and a WP7 and start a Imdb app side by side and let me know which one looks like a glorified web page.

Anonymous

alot of it is just awareness as well. I just bought an Asus eee Pad transformer with it’s laptop dock. I’ve been bringing it in to work with me and everyone comes up and says oh you have an iPad, then I explain them them what it does and show them and then the keyboard dock and almost everyone comes away impressed, Even ones that own an iPad saying “I wish my iPad can do that” etc.

Sonson8258

Bos, I’m reading this article & responding to your comment on my Asus Transformer. I love it! Although recently I’ve been thinking I would love a galaxy tab with a bt keyboard just as much (if not more)

Anonymous

Only thing MS has going for it is enterprise and price. They have to stick with that business model.

http://twitter.com/computer_tweets KW

Got that right.
Neoprimal

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.

http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

I would never buy a Dell anything to be honest with you. I had a laptop a few years back, it was recalled and when I sent it in they sent it back untouched. They also refused to send me a refurbished model.

Everything Dell overheats too easy.

Anonymous

1. An article by dell ceo… Who wants anything dell ? Everyone knows some one or owned a dell product that was total garbage.
2. When the dell steak 7″ came out I looked at, total garbage. Horrible screen resolution. Demo worked for 2 days before it broke.
3. You can’t determine an OS’ viability based on an inferior product manufacturers poor sales

Anonymous

Don’t forget, besides the crappy computers they make, this is the same idiot who said Apple should close up shop and quit. My point is that clearly, he has no clue, and we shouldn’t be listening to him at all.

Anonymous

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.

Anonymous

I’m surprised Dell is still around…they merely assemble parts other companies have been providing in house production to far greater extent.

Dell makes NOTHING other than logos.

Anonymous

Who do you think makes Macs and HPs? Not Apple or HP
https://sites.google.com/site/barry99705/ barry99705

Foxconn….
https://sites.google.com/site/barry99705/ barry99705

Actually Dell does still do it’s own manufacturing, none of it is still in the US, but it’s still Dell’s name on the side of the buildings. They do outsource quite a bit.
Anonymous

Dell assembles parts from others. They don’t manufacture.

http://twitter.com/SonsofAres Sons of Ares

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

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

Mgl323

Catch up with what?

Anonymous

I was speaking in terms of sales and market share.
Mgl323

Got it. Thanks for the clarification.
http://twitter.com/whitmcghee Whit McGhee

Go Gamecocks? :D

Anonymous

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.
Guest

ROTFLMFAO…..
http://twitter.com/mbcls ask me

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

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

lol Android

LOL
DellSucks

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.
Anonymous

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….
http://www.youtube.com/user/TechDexs?feature=mhee Mr. Nelson

Smh @ Dell
Daniel

Maybe yes maybe not, but I would wait until tonight to make that statement…
http://twitter.com/whitmcghee Whit McGhee

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.

Anonymous

What marketing? I barely even see any ad for any apple product anywhere? Where is the marketing and the hype? They produce good products that people want to buy.

http://twitter.com/whitmcghee Whit McGhee

I agree with you. It’s an excellent product and it set the bar in its own right. The marketing is all around you. Websites that leak information, stream product announcements and publish glowing hands-on reviews, evening newscasts that discuss Apple products alongside the other news stories of the day. Apple plays a huge role in that.
Anonymous

GO GAMECOCKS! We’re #10!

http://twitter.com/gnomehole The Gnome

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

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

Anonymous

Well i think appke is uncool
Anonymous

LOL – Umm, they pretty much have market dominance like Apple has iPad dominance, so someone thinks they’re still cool.

Anonymous

iPad, iPhone… benchmark.
Youremail

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

Dell Computers are ones I don’t touch. They’re junk……like Bose, Monster Cables, etc., etc…..
Johnnybravo_4u2000

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…
homescrub

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

of course they can’t. Android is terrible.
Anonymous

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

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.

Ytram

You were not immediately ejected from a Best Buy for correcting one of their employees.
Anonymous

But apple already made money from all of them.
http://www.facebook.com/superg05 Jeremy Washington

i like you your awsome i have done the same but was not ever kicked out they tried to hire me

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