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Jobs knows how to lead.

Yes, Dell's foot is in his mouth and his head is in his backside.
I hope that he eats himself from the inside out.
But really though this is good news for us Mac users.
Just think how good we would feel if Apple advertised as much as Dell. Talk about market share….

and we dutifully follow

And none worked harder than Apple employees at achieving this.

With Intels manufacturing muscle I suspect that new Mac release delays will become shorter and less challenged than ever before as the year progresses. I look for Apple to start advertising a bit more as they adopt to the new full supply chain and the opportunites it offers.

suck it dell

what a way to motivate your workers! let's keep up all the GREAT work apple employees and steve continue to give the insight they need to produce great work.

Mikey is a master repackager that crushes competitors by selling cheap. The long term problem with that strategy is that it doesn't allow for improvements in the product.

This is expecially important when you are repackaging industry standard parts with a Windows controller. Someone may take those industry standard parts and control them with something better, say OSX.

When that happens, your cheap price actually reflects the value in your product, and the maker of something better (just like cream) rises to the top.

The new world economy has no patience for those who sell just commodities. Dell is about to be eaten by the very way it made its living--that now belongs to China. It is the age of value added businesses to make a difference and thrive and that is familiar ground to Apple. Those leaders that lack a vision are suddenly so quiet--that's the sound of their fear.

Tangential, but related-- anyone notice the barrage of iMac tv advertisements yesterday on number of networks. Apple is finally advertising and staged to grow even more.

I just ate an iMac for lunch at McDonalds.

Tasty, but I think it had been hanging around for a while. It still had a PowerPC processor. Tasted like a bad pickle.

Yeah. But I ate it with gusto.

MW: stop - as in: Stop me before I eat another one!

This is a good psycological reward, after all if people believe they can win they will.

Also it could turn the tide of public opinion, right now Dell has a lot of mindshare, this is valuable info to counter that perception.

Dell of course pumps out many more computers than Apple, more market share, but Dell is also in dept for a few million and Apple is foaming in cash to the tune of several billion.

R, where did you see the advertisements? I haven't watched anything since last week.

I'm the richest man in the world.
But no one likes my operating system.
Why me?
Why?
Please: like me...

yeah, I saw 20+ Mac ads yesterday, and i haven't even seen the new iPod ad on tv!

What I find interesting is the Steve sends out emails to people in his company....and this is the first one "leaked".

Where did this reporter get the internal e-mail? Why haven´t we seen more Stevemails???

Even when criticizing Michael Dell, Steve is STILL a class act!

I haven't seen any iMac ads in NZ yet! I hope we get some down here soon!

Well, it's nice, but Steve Jobs said almost the exact thing in the mid 90s when he was still leading NEXT.

I installed a Bose 5.1 theater system today and the quality reminded me of Apple products. Care of packaging and how well everything is marked gives people the warm fuzzies. I'm certainly recommending them. Did we pay more, bet your butt, but I'm quite happy. The Bose system now handles the DSS and DVD playing, now I can forget about my 3 other remotes.

They still need some help with simplifying the remote, but it's much better than most. It white so you can see it. Amazing!

Why can't most companies make decent products? Because to the owners, it's not about the product, it's about money. So if you have a whole bunch of money you can buy a whole bunch of crap. What's the point?

Whatever you do, do it beautifully.

They ran .. this commercial sometime during the 2nd half of the Panthers / Bears game...

Were there any others ?

In a way, we owe a lot to Dell. Before him, PC's were individual and distinctive, to the extent that Tandys and PS/2's were almost major hardware platforms in and of themselves. Afterwards, PC's are commodity boxes each indistinguishable from each other. Thanks to him, Apple's design really shines above the rest.

"Pride commuth before the fall"

There are threads on Appleionsider and Applenova )I think about the advertisements. They were on ABC, Fox...

Cool stuff. Notice too that Jobs has made some very public statements lately?

The winds are shifting, friends...

Define, Pride, please.

In 2006, shortly after Mr. Jobs announced Macs with Intel processors shipping earlier than expected, Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, was asked at Macworld what might be done to fix Dell, then financially secure. 'What would I do?' Mr. Jobs said to an audience of several thousand information technology managers. 'I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.'"

Michael Dull was lucky enough to "be in the right place at the right time"®.

Beyond that, his ability to inspire and lead a company to innovate is woefully lacking. He is the king of the commodity peecee . Now that users are more mature, growing tired of malware and are demanding more from their computing experience where does that leave Mr. Dull? He knows he desperately needs a better "box" but Windblows and his business model has him shackled.

And forget about getting on the Mac OS X gravy train Mr. Dull, Steve won't rent you Apple's vision, creativity and hard ass work.

Rock on Steve!

Jayplus:

Of course, that's not at all what Steve would say -- or do.


MW: fall, as in "Pride goeth before a...", a lesson Mr. Dell is learning a bit late in his career.