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OEM Industry Leaders Interviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-the-industry-goes dept.

jkwdoc writes "In one of the few mass interviews ever conducted, the crew at HardOCP.com talked to seven different OEM presidents and founders to ask them about the PC industry. The names include Michael Dell, Kelt Reeves (Falcon Northwest), Randy Copeland (Velocity Micro), and Albert Wang (ABS/Newegg), among others. The questions ranged from their business principles, to the effect of the enthusiast and gaming markets, to what dual- and quad-core technology means for the next generation of computing. You'll be surprised at some of the answers." Of course, the article has to span nine pages because they have to show their ads over...and over...and over.

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  1. Nice to see a competitive open environment by krell · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nice to see that you still have many different companies competing AND cooperating in an open fashion on the PC platform. The Mac OS world would be greatly strengthened if you have such an open and responsive situation of multiple hardware vendors making machines to run Mac software.

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    1. Re:Nice to see a competitive open environment by Daniel_Staal · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Actually, we can see exactly what would have happened in that case, since it had been going on: USB would have been included, but no one would ever have used it because they didn't know about it.

      The iMac was not the first computer with USB. USB had been out, and standard, on PCs for years. The iMac just got USB noticed.

      And there were quickly cheap third-party solutions to connect ADB and serial devices to USB ports.

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