So, Dell has a new Android based phone.
We’re seen this sort of nonsense before, with the Dell Ditty (rhymes with…) music player. I predict this product will get essentially no market traction, and we’ll hear very little about it, except perhaps in a few years when there are some articles about how Dell is either exiting the smart phone market or rebranding/retooling its smart phones because nobody has been paying attention to them.
One of the reasons Apple is so successful is because the company has a very good understanding of its own strengths and weaknesses, and uses that understanding to determine what markets it can make valuable contributions in. Dell is atrociously awful at this. Instead, the company seems to feel a compulsion to enter every significant market, regardless of whether it has anything valuable to contribute there, apparently on the basis that being a serious player in the PC industry makes the company some kind of technology leader. (Microsoft often follows a very similar pattern.)
