The Ignominious Fall of Dell 604
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Bill Snyder discusses the ignominious decline of Dell, one akin to that of Computer Associates, leaving the company forever tainted by scandal and a 'shocking breach of faith with customers.' Dell's pioneering business model and supply chain helped make desktop computing ubiquitous, affordable, and secure. But years of awful quality control and customer service have finally caught up to the company in a very public way that will do irreparable damage to the company for years to come. 'What we've learned about Dell recently doesn't qualify as an understandable mistake. Only a rotten company sells defective computers and lies about it.'"
cough (Score:5, Funny)
"Only a rotten company sells defective computers and lies about it."
Maybe the users are holding them wrong?
What Kind of Company Sells (Score:1, Funny)
Defective phones and lies about it?
Re:Hyperbole much? (Score:2, Funny)
Apple?
Re:cough (Score:1, Funny)
Not funny. How dare you attack Apple? They are all that right and good in the world of computing, and if you can't be bothered to hold it properly, maybe you shouldn't buy a fucking phone. Ever thought of that?
STEVE JOBS IS LORD
Re:Did I miss the boat on this one? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:cough (Score:5, Funny)
Now you're assuming Apple cares about any product more than 2 years old. After all, they just cut support for first generation iPhones and iTouches, and those are just a hair over 2 years... I guess that's a better business model, though - planned obsolescence in 24 months.
A hair over 2 years? The first iPhone model itself is 3 years old. Combine that with the expected life-span of a mobile phone to be 2 years (subsidized phone every 2 years), they aren't doing anything outside of the norm.
Re:Hyperbole much? (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing. I built a nuclear reactor out of an old refrigerator, bits and pieces purchased at the local Home Depot and Radio Shack, and spare parts from a 1976 Toyota pickup.
It works fine, but I have a hell of a time getting fissile material. Those nice young Russian guys say they're going to deliver as soon as my check clears. I'm going to put the waste materials in my mother-in-law's basement, which should be safe, since there's a concrete foundation. I cleaned out a corner next to the washing machine and I plan to stack the cardboard boxes there for the next 50,000 years.
Wow, this damage-control strategy sounds familiar (Score:4, Funny)
From: michael@dell.com
To: xxxx@utexas.edu
Re: Hardware failures running Matlab
You're exceeding the floating-point unit's recommended duty cycle. Turn it off for awhile.
Sent from my iPhone
Re:-shrug- (Score:2, Funny)
Re:cough (Score:5, Funny)
is that a threat?
Wait, what? (Score:5, Funny)
[looks at slashdot user ID] Yeah, you're new here.
What should be done (Score:1, Funny)
If I was the CEO of Dell I would sell it off and give the money back to the shareholders.
Sincerely
Steve Jobs
Re:Former Senior Support Analyst for Dell... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:-shrug- still got a dell at work... (Score:2, Funny)
> Now my mac book pro, 2 years old, the last generation before they got gay.
Uh... hate to break it to you, slick, but just like soccer... macs have always been gay.
Re:-shrug- (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Even then you don't know (Score:1, Funny)
I can tell that you're lying because your post doesn't have an Indian accent!
Re:Wait, what? (Score:5, Funny)
[looks at slashdot user ID] Yeah, you're new here.
you all look the same to me...
Re:cough (Score:5, Funny)
But there is such a thing as an "iDouche". You are one.
Re:Wait, what? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:cough (Score:3, Funny)
OMG Apple fanboi fire brigade to the rescue!!!!! Thank God you got here in time before people could realise that Apple is just as prone to making shoddy products and lying about it as anyone else.
Re:Wait, what? (Score:3, Funny)
Hush, noob.
Damn Yanks! (Score:3, Funny)
Tomato/tomahto.
Surely you mean Tomayto/tomato. :-P
Re:Wait, what? (Score:3, Funny)
God dammit, everybody pipe down. I'm trying to take a nap.