I seem to recall a certain opinion about a certain fruit company about ten years ago voiced by Mr. Dell.
Didn't Michael have strong opinions about the future success of the five inch Dell Streak tablet?
But betting on the future success of a Win 8 ARM tablet seems very safe to me.
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, said his company remains interested in Android tablets, but also noted Windows 8 will be a viable competitor.
On a second quarter conference call with analysts, Dell said the company’s early work on Windows 8 “looks to be pretty encouraging.”
As noted previously, Dell’s tablet line-up is lacking. Dell didn’t say much about the company’s future tablet plans, but indicated it would be a likely player with Windows 8 and Android devices.
When asked about his take on Google’s purchase of Motorola for $12.5 billion, Dell noted the deal hasn’t closed yet.
Here’s how Dell handicapped Google-Motorola and the tablet market overall:
It’s too early to say because Google obviously hasn’t finished the transaction and they haven’t said a whole lot about it. Certainly patents play a big role here and having Android with a stronger ability to exhaust patent claims against it probably sets up an interesting competitive dynamic. We’re still quite interested Android. I’ll also tell you that our early work on Windows 8 on the tablet side looks to be pretty encouraging and so we think it’s shaping up to be a competitive environment. I don’t think beyond those two that there are viable alternatives that make sense so there’s a lot of other noise in the market that I don’t think will amount to much of anything.
In other words, Dell, which obviously can’t license Apple’s iOS, sees a three horse tablet race at some point.
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