11-12-2002, 04:16 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Re: This is what CEOs do
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Originally Posted by Ed@Brighthand
Foo Fighter, let's be realistic for a second. What else was he going to say? "Oh yeah, with Dell coming in, everyone else is doomed. I've already written my resume." Of course he isn't going to state or even imply that a new competitor is more than his company can handle. To do otherwise would be stupid.
One of the jobs of a CEO is to be a corporate cheerleader. Dell's entry into handhelds has generated a tremendous amount of hype. As the head of PalmSource, part of his job is to try to deflate some of that hype.
Mr. Nagel is right when he said, There is a reticence (on the part of manufacturers) to commit to a single platform." The director of worldwide mobile products for Dell recently said, "The possibility of us producing a Palm OS-based model is not out of the question for the future."
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cheerleading is out, only the paranoid survives. I rather hear Palm say, yes we are watching the situation carefully, and we have strategy. Anybody in the industry knows what Dell is capable of, so cheerleading is definitely not the right attitude.
His statement indicates that Palm Inc has no strategy and with the way he spins how it will affect only PPC pricing structure, he doesn't seems to even aware the magnitude of his problem. (hint, it's 1M unit annually going to flood the market) If they think iPAQ is a problem with 800k annual production first year at $499 price range and snuff up m505, wait until Dell finish up the job in $200-300 price range.
PS. I take it Brighthand.com battery test on T|T vs iPaq is not reproducable? (ie. a joke?)
PSS. speaking of hype, what happen to all the Tungsten multimedia capability and 3 times battery life? |
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