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  Dell Phone?

  John Erik 6:13 pm on February 16, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Android, Apple, dell, Google, High Tech Computer Corporation, iPhone (3), iPod, john erik metcalf (17), Nokia, Symbian OS, Texas Related (5)

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  Dell should market their phone as business device.

  They can utilize existing government and enterprise contracts. These contracts take a long time to secure. Once they are in place, it’s relatively easy to push something in — in this case, to add a mobile devices agreement. If they are already using blackberry, they can cancel.

  Dell should use Google’s Android OS.

  Dell’s choices for OS are: develop their own (bad idea, since Dell does not make software), use Windows Mobile (this is not a good choice, because there are already lots of phones using Windows Mobile. Adding another to the market is not a compelling offer. Most phone using Windows Mobile are made by HTC.), so go with Android.

  Other platforms are: Symbian is only on Nokia, Blackberry OS on RIM devices only, iPhone OS for Apple devices only.

  The G1 was marketed as a consumer device to compete with the iPhone. If they use Android, they’ll be the first to target this platform at business users, which will be good PR.

  Beyond that, consumer confidence in Dell is waning, as Apple and HP are growing stronger. When Dell tried to compete directly with the iPod, they sucked.

  Go Android. Go business.

  
   

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  New York recap

  John Erik 11:23 pm on August 8, 2008 | 5 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: General (76), Google, Jessica Livingston, Paul Graham, startups (2), Trevor Blackwell, Venture capital, Y Combinator (2), Yale School of Music

  

  Two weeks ago I had a very productive and highly entertaining trip to New York (if you don’t count delayed and canceled flights), but I didn’t blog about anything. gah! So, here’s a quick recap:

  Started the trip hunging out with Tony Bacigalupo of New Work City (really cool site), an initiative he’s leading to open a coworking space in Manhattan, and some of his potential clientele — the guys from http://beyou.tv and others (btw tony, thanks for all your help and advice on Conjunctured– needless to say, it’s much easier to find and open a coworking space in Austin, versus Manhattan.) Melissa and I went to Whitney Hess’s birthday party and met @brettof Mashable, Tom Limongello creator of http://failwhale.com, @gruen, @mknell, and more. We had coffee (and juice) with Eric Friedman from Union Square Ventures and breakfast with Girish Gupta from RRE Ventures. We had drinks, took an urban hike, and shared a wonderfully forward-looking conversation with Futurist, Gary Golden. Ate a vegan meal with @bre, hacker and founder of NYC Resistor. Met with Scott and Alan from Google. And Christopher from Google who introduced us to 3 entrepreneurs from the Yale School of Music. Visited Cambridge. Ran through the rain and chatted Tommy Li, President of the Harvard Entrepreneur Society. Had homemade curry and rice with Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, and this session’s 60 founders, at Y Combinator — this is a all post of its own.

  
  mknell, brett, gruen

  Melissa and I diverged from meetings or work often and walked in central park, tried both PinkBerry and its copy, RedMango, spent a day in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum and discussed life the universe and everything, ordered lots of smoothies and juice, laid on benches, went shopping. Successfully made seven trips to the Apple store at all times of the day. Successfully failed at getting Mel an iPwn.

  Now, I’m in San Francisco — I’ll be blogging this trip. (and hopefully getting Mel an appl phone)