Dell's jealously is quite apparent when it comes to Apple's highly successful iPad, as it was just reported that Dell's global head of marketing, Andy Lark, recently predicted that it will ultimately fail, and stated:
“An iPad with a keyboard, a mouse and a case [means] you’ll be at $1500 or $1600; that’s double of what you’re paying," he said. "That’s not feasible.”
Ha, ha, ha! Is that funny or what?
How can you be expected to believe Dell when its executives apparently can't even count! As AppleInsider pointed out, you could easily get all of the above for around $207. Add that to a $499 iPad, at the low end, and you can see that Mr. Lark's figures don't exactly, well...... figure! When it comes to believability, apparently Dell is pretty dull!
Dell isn't the only company to bash the iPad success either, as AppleInsider's post also goes on to explain, but, as far as I'm concerned, Mr. Lark's statements are based not on reality, but simply rather just on plain old jealousy, frustration and sheer desperation.
As interesting as WebOS, Windows and Android tablets might seem in their respective demonstrations, they are, in fact, all rather half-baked and come out looking pretty lame in comparison to the iPad itself, and especially when compared to its silky smooth performance. Yes, the other tablets may boast of having more features, like running Flash, for example, but considering how Flash is not only extremely buggy, and a big resource hog, plus being a really big drain on battery life, coupled with the fact that it is also so dog-dang slow and, most importantly, its also one of the biggest, if not the biggest, threat to any device's security, I can't see how anyone can brag that have it on board.
In the future Android, Windows and WebOS tablets may indeed give the iPad a run for its money, but certainly not for now. Presently, they all come out somewhat short as far as I'm concerned. For one thing, Steve Jobs may have given Android a little too much credit when he said that it had about 100 tablet-ready apps available, because the truth is, that in comparison to the iPad's 65,000 plus, Android actually only has approximately a mere 17!
In the meantime, and in conclusion, I can't really take too seriously comments like Andy Lark's, and that goes especially when coming from a company who' s founder infamously stated that the best thing that he would do with Apple, if he were in Steve Jobs shoes, would be to: ".......... I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."
And that's my 2 cents 4 this Wednesday, March the 29th., 2011
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