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Dell Gives Android the Boot, Boots Up More Windows 8

Posted by timothy on from the thinking-different dept.

hugheseyau writes "Dell vice chairman Jeff Clarke made a less than shocking announcement at this year's Dell World Conference in Austin. The company is officially giving up on Android phones and tablets. ... So if Dell is giving up on Android, what comes next? The company claims it's doubling down on Windows 8, and the enterprise market."

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  1. Market changing? Not competing successfully? by kawabago · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Customers disappearing? It's time to turn back the clock and go back to what made your name in the first place. If you're a restaurant, it's a great idea. If you're a technology company, it's suicide. Bye Dell, it was nice while you lasted!

    1. Re:Market changing? Not competing successfully? by nightfire-unique · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Android devices are outselling Windows devices 2:1.

      Android devices are outselling iOS devices 2:1. Windows device sales appear as a rounding error.

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  2. And why? by LordLucless · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So why dump Android? According to Clarke, “It’s a content play with Android”. “Amazon is selling books and Google is making it up with search.

    So, basically, there was competent competition, and Dell's me-toosim wasn't cutting it.

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  3. For those who didn't notice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dell made an Android tablet, known as the Dell Streak, it was not a success. Expensive, crap screen, underpowered, cheapy feeling.

    So now they're switching to Windows 8, with their expensive underpowered crap screens, cheap feeling tablets, THEY'RE SURE TO BE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL!!!

    Methinks they're not fixing the real problem. Android sell in bucket loads and if they couldn't sell a tablet with it, then they needed to refine their tablet designs till they did sell. Change Android for Windows 8, doesn't fix their problems, it just adds another one: no touch apps.

  4. Re:Correction: It will be irrelevant: by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Eventually, they'll get the hint...

    By the time they got the hint, the marketplace would have pulled out the rug out from under their feet ...
     
    See what happened to HP or Nokia, or Kodak?

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  5. Android made phones/tablets? by hobarrera · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To me, the news is that Dell made phones/tablets. I'd never heard of them before, nor have I ever seen any.
    Am I the only one here?

  6. In other words... by Dcnjoe60 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In other words, Microsoft made Dell another offer they couldn't refuse by not shipping other operating systems. It's not the first time, but with the public's acceptance of Windows 8, it could be the last.