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  • John Erik 6:13 pm on February 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Android, Apple, dell, Google, High Tech Computer Corporation, , iPod, , Nokia, Symbian OS,   

    Dell Phone? 

    Image representing Dell as depicted in CrunchBaseImage via CrunchBase

    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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    • gabrielpdansby 9:00 pm on April 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      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 mocospace.com 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. thank you…..

    • Francis Cobra Detector 10:12 pm on May 6, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      This could make or break for the guys in Dell, It is hard to match up their phone against the well known iPhone. But if they put in some key features that iPhone doesn't have then it could potentially be a top contender.

    • Dorset web design 2:20 pm on May 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      i wanna do what people who work at dell and answer the phone and help solve problems with computers do. but i dont know what there called

    • Chester 8:04 pm on September 12, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      I have found out a thing new on a number of weblogs every day. It usually is exciting to find out articles of other internet writers and learn a little something from them. Many thanks for sharing.

  • John Erik 11:23 pm on August 8, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Google, Jessica Livingston, Paul Graham, , Trevor Blackwell, Venture capital, , Yale School of Music   

    New York recap 

    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)

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    • Jon Ray 9:09 pm on August 9, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Glad you finally got around to blogging about your New York trip. This post kind of reminded me of the “Victor” sequence in The Rules of Attraction. A lot of information shoved into one paragraph.

      Victor Scene – The Rules of Attraction
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ8zwI4i3s

      Anyhow, I know you’re super busy, but I’m going to bust your balls here for a second. On your San Francisco trip, it would be fun to see a post where you talk about interesting things you learned or discussed with certain people, instead of quickly listing them all and telling us where you had coffee (or juice). ;)

      Hope San Francisco is a blast and you know I’m just being critical because I want to know more about these amazing trips you’re taking!

    • Jon Ray 10:09 pm on August 9, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Glad you finally got around to blogging about your New York trip. This post kind of reminded me of the “Victor” sequence in The Rules of Attraction. A lot of information shoved into one paragraph.

      Victor Scene – The Rules of Attraction
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ8zwI4i3s

      Anyhow, I know you're super busy, but I'm going to bust your balls here for a second. On your San Francisco trip, it would be fun to see a post where you talk about interesting things you learned or discussed with certain people, instead of quickly listing them all and telling us where you had coffee (or juice). ;)

      Hope San Francisco is a blast and you know I'm just being critical because I want to know more about these amazing trips you're taking!

    • John Erik 3:58 pm on August 14, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      you are so right, my friend.

      okay, will work on this.

    • John Erik 4:58 pm on August 14, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      you are so right, my friend.

      okay, will work on this.

    • Gate Latch  6:23 pm on October 20, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      video blogging is more exciting than traditional text blogging*;”

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