Sunday, March 22, 2009 |
16:10 - Like failing a class you were only auditing
http://pajamasmedia.com/vodkapundit/2009/03/22/failure-to-launch/
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Stephen Green:
After signaling its intent to follow Apple’s wildly successful iPhone into the smartphone business, Dell’s first attempts to produce a phone have been rejected by the carries for being too dull and lacking enough differentiation to stand out in a competitive environment, according to a report.
A research note published today by Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu said that Dell’s new prototypes, capable of running both Windows Mobile or Google’s Android, simply didn’t interest the carriers.
You can’t just slap a touch screen on something and call it an iPhone killer, not even when it runs Google Android.
I didn't even think it was possible to produce a phone too boring for the carriers to support it. (I sure wouldn't have known it from looking at the field.) That's got to be quite an achievement right there.
Maybe after all these years, the industry is starting to notice a pattern involving products claiming to be "iPod/iPhone killers", even if they don't themselves word it that way...
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