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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, Insightful

      Apple tried that, mid-90's.

      It didn't help. And it hurt Apple's sales.

      (Yes, perhaps the situation has changed, but never mind. Apple only has two unique things at this point: their industrial design, and their GUI. They are competing on both with everyone else. Get over it.)

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    2. 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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    3. Re:Nice to see a competitive open environment by krell · · Score: 2, Informative

      "Apple only has two unique things at this point: their industrial design, and their GUI. They are competing on both with everyone else"

      On the first, the "uniqueness" has eroded a lot, as the platform has evolved to be able to take the same mice, monitors, and plug-in cards everyone else uses. Used to be that this wasn't the case. As such, this uniqueness was never really a strength.

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    4. Re:Nice to see a competitive open environment by truthsearch · · Score: 2, Informative

      by not having a mid-range head less system

      You mean like the Mini?

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  2. No ads, but no surprise either by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Informative

    That page was surprisingly free of any ad for me, thanks probably to the filter in Firefox. But it was also unsurprisingly devoid of content, as most of what those execs have to say is rah-rah or generic bollocks.

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    1. Re:No ads, but no surprise either by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's what Firefox needs, a generic bollocks filter! Adjustable settings could include stuff like "corporate press release," "mainstream news," and "emo livejournal." Somebody, write a plugin!

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  3. Supply/pricing by jense · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It seems to be a universal concern across this panel that the dependency on hardware vendors (and their ever-lowering prices) is choking the ability to sell at a high profit margin, and the future of these companies lies in their value-add or approach to the problem. Dell seems to be leaning to the ever-successful volume model, while smaller niche companies will be focusing on specialty services differentiation. In the end, though, it's likely that many of the smaller companies will either be bought (like Alienware) or stay very small in their respective niche. IMO.

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