Michael Dell plans to give the keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show, where, according to organizers:
“Mr. Dell will describe how customer imagination is the most important driver of innovation, and introduce groundbreaking new products and services.”
Besides the first half of that sentence not making a bit of sense to anyone outside of the Enderle household, er… “Group,” Michael Dell wouldn’t know “innovation” and/or “groundbreaking new products and services” if they walked up behind him and bit him in the ass.
Anyway, get this, Michael Dell plans to bore the audience to tears with his description of “how customer imagination is the most important driver of innovation” or whatever on Tuesday, January 9th at 9am PST; in other words, exactly the same date and time as Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ Macworld Expo 2007 keynote.
There’s nothing quite like seeing the local cover band schedule their first gig across town on the same night and time that Elvis opens for The Beatles, is there?
Good luck with your media coverage there, Mikey.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Investor” for the heads up.]
Related article:
Steve Jobs to deliver keynote address at Macworld Expo San Francisco 2007 on January 9th – October 03, 2006
“Michael Dell wouldn’t know “innovation” and/or “groundbreaking new products and services” if they walked up behind him and bit him in the ass.”
…which they do every January
I think this isn’t by chance. Knowing that he had nothing new to say on innovation, he planned it for a time when noone would be listening….that way, diverting the attention from his incompetence.
same date, same time.
that’s pretty innovative, isn’t it?
MDN: effort: as in, how much effort did that take to dream up?
good riddance
Would have thought that manufacturer imagination is the driver of innovation. People don’t necessarily know what they want until someone shows it to them. Or so SJ has spoken
Great.
Now I’ve got that awful song “Total Eclipse of the Heart” playing over and over in my head.
It’s gonna be a long nite.
I believe SJ has said if you make what the customer wants, by the time you can deliver it, the customer has changed their minds.
Pulling a Microsoft eh?
Good line, MDN: “There’s nothing quite like seeing the local cover band schedule their first gig across town on the same night and time that Elvis opens for The Beatles, is there?”
But the local cover band will have its groupies: Enderle, et al.
The writer of MacDailyNews deserves a medal. … entertaining, truthful and just the right amount of attitude.
Poor f***ker. I almost feel sorry for him.
I think that he’ll delay his keynote by about 5 minutes. That will allow his operatives to see what Steve is introducing at MW, translate it into Dellspeak, transmit it to his receiver, and have him announce his “innovations”. I can see it now: “We are, uh, delivering a new iPod, uh, I mean music player with, uh, video. Yeah, that’s it. And we’re gonna give you iTV, uh, I mean DellTV that will, uh, allow you to, uh, whatever.”
time for Mikey to get a new personal assistant
What can a commodity PC assembler possibly do that’s imaginative, innovative, or groundbreaking? Cut prices and bundle others’ software? LOL.
Good one Jimbo. Wouldn’t be the first time some doofus from Texas was caught wearing a wire.
Dell innovation:
When you first turn on your new Dell PC, the entire screen is filled with a huge AOL shortcut icon.
haha Enderle. Does he even believe his own analysees? I mean, if you read him, every company is failing miserably at everything and “past their peak”…
Come on guys they changed their PCs from biege to black, how much more inovation do you want?
Cheers,
Tim.
He’s gotta make points with the customer some how. Who better to kiss up to?
But where is the innovation @ DELL?
DELLditty
ah Texas… what a hot bed of innovation and progress.
(sigh)
‘Come on… texas isn’t all bad. Yea, we did offer up Tom Delay and Senior Arbusto, but Austin is kool… 😎
We just don’t consider ourselves part of Texas, we are “Austin”! (that’s different)
Charlie
Looks like Apple eclipsed Dell by quite a bit in Market Cap:
Apple 73.61b
Dell 58.49b
Will be interesting to watch the Michael Dell presentation on YouTube, he can’t suck anymore than Ballmer.
Apple should brodcast Steve’s keynote to the CES crowd in Vegas. I’ll bet everyone would watch Steve, leaving Mr. Dell talking to himself, in a large room no less! That would be sooooo cool.
Mike – When a horse throws you off, it’s trying to tell you something. Not only that it is smarter than you, but that you should not operate anything heavier than a pogo stick by yourself.
I think you might have hit your head harder than anyone thought.
Folks, this is my favorite rivalry in all of computerdom.
On the one hand, you have the greasy used-car salesman, doing anything he can to make a deal, all the while trying to stand between you and the giant scratch in the door, going on and on about how much you REALLY NEED the undercoating, and then forgetting your name the minute you leave the lot. He wears a suit from the Men’s Wearhouse markdown bin, a size too large to contain his ever expanding love for donuts. To impress his underlings, he drives a Hummer home from the lot, ever mystified that the women he oggle in traffic don’t seem to be imopressed. And his own car, a beige 1991 Honda Accord (does it GET any more beige?) reeks of pine-tree and Bruit.
On the other, you’ve got the Euro-slick captain of industry, at once personable and untouchable, leading an army of talent that he can turn on a dime, well before anyone else in the room spots the changing trends. He is fair, if ruthless, and commands respect without ever having to demand it. He’s not always right, but when he’s wrong, it’s because YOU were not ready. He drives a Mercedes SL convertible with a stereo that no one outside of Tokyo has ever heard of. He could afford any Bentley on the road, but he has no need to impress others with something as trivial as monetary wealth. In the garage still sits his beloved VW Beetle, smelling vaguely of intercourse and pot.
Okay, I’ll stop now… ;P
-c
MW: ‘taken’ (way too seriously)
maybe he wants to announce something he’s not too proud of…
“I’m a PC”