You can't expect much of a product when the CEO of the company thinks it's only good for second-class use. The notion of "good only for a 30min experience" is exemplified in the bastardized keyboard layout that only exacerbates the weakness of netbooks. The availability of only black and white colors--when other Dell products get the colorized treatment--shows this to be a half-hearted effort for a perceived second-class product. Dell only wants to not get left behind, but he isn't playing to win. Dell's problem has been the willingness to put out mediocre products just to have a place at the table--cue the Dell DJ and now the mini Insp.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I would change Michael Dell's attitude:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10050225-92.html
You can't expect much of a product when the CEO of the company thinks it's only good for second-class use. The notion of "good only for a 30min experience" is exemplified in the bastardized keyboard layout that only exacerbates the weakness of netbooks. The availability of only black and white colors--when other Dell products get the colorized treatment--shows this to be a half-hearted effort for a perceived second-class product. Dell only wants to not get left behind, but he isn't playing to win. Dell's problem has been the willingness to put out mediocre products just to have a place at the table--cue the Dell DJ and now the mini Insp.