"Apple should license the Mac to Dell"

Given Apple's reliability rating of over 200 and Dell's at 4 (reported here on MacNN) it's a safe bet that Apple will pass on this notion. -apple-project.com

I agree with the first comment. Dell's reputation for quality and reliability is currently garbage. Adding the animosity that Michael Dell has for the Apple aesthetic, Dell would be a horrible choice of partner for Apple.

I agree. Sales are WAY up, market share is WAY up. Apple is making Billions. This can mean but one thing. They will be out of business in a year! They better stop making this great hardware everyone is buying up, if they are to survive...

While my Dell experiences have been positive everything they make is PLASTIC - not even on the same wavelength as Apple's industrial design & materiality - for me the comparison stops there... Like comparing certain american cars to a european ones - windows users finally have the opportunity to run software on such beautiful equipment & lighted keyboards to my knowledge are not available on other laptops...

The hardware side seems just as much the essence of the Mac experience as the software, and IMHO should not be licenced to Mikie...

Apple may yet surprise the bean counters with just how far they will go with market share all on their own...

Steve said it many times, he likes to make simple and functional hardware/software, and if that makes lots of money well… great if not that's also ok.

I like that attitude.

Warning, warning...conflicting analyst reports incoming from Gartner. If we ignore Gartner and their shitty analysts, maybe they'll go away.

Only an analyst would make such a silly remark. I'm sure this guy (or gal) is using a Dell to write such rubish -- remember: garbage in, garbage out. Isn't it ironic that this is coming from a company that has always been negative on Apple...just how are they doing these days? Just goes to show you how reliable these "research" companies are...another thing we can do without!

Where is Apple's pressure to cut prices? They already deliver the best and most capable product for the money while seeking to undercut nobody. By providing a superior user experience and superior design they have increased their market share and have done it without playing the "lowest base price" game.

Another expert speaking from an orifice not intended for speech...

... means hangover in Finnish and perhaps that is what these analysts have been suffering from? Is it only me, but I think I can recognize a certain kind of hysteria among some people when it comes to everything Apple-related these days? Anything negative there can be said about the company and their porducts are blown up out of any proportions and FUD-tornadoes are brewing everywhere. Maybe these people are scared that this area of industry would return to a more normal state where you don't have one gigantic company delivering the "engine" almost every personal computer is running on, but where there would be room for more players?

You know, sometimes I think that if Apple would succeed, maybe that would mean a new life for Sun, for instance. After all, lots of what we see in Vista is not only copied from Mac OS X, but also from a project Sun had going, something called Glass-something.

And I would also liked to see Jef Raskin's original ideas for the Macintosh realized some day.

But these people would perhaps get really depressed to see that happen and they will do anything to maintain status quo ante bellum?