And this is why BlackBerry and Dell can’t do anything right.
23 thoughts on “BlackBerry, Dell aren’t worried about Apple, IBM deal”
BlackBerry and Dell have much more important things to worry about.
Like “avoiding bankruptcy in the near future”.
“You don’t want to be a strong guy in a market that is not growing.”
Right. Because it’s better to be struggling for breath… in a market that’s not growing.
One thing I keep wondering about with the IBM-Apple deal… Will this include IBM selling Macs into the enterprise? And if it does, will this be as big for the Mac as it will be for iOS devices?
Not worried, hmmm. Maybe they know something the world has overlooked.
Could It Be that ‘amateur hour’ & ‘let’s give the money back to shareholders & go private’ will be teaming up? Can we look forward to a special synergy and much more of all the stuff they’ve brought about individually.
We can only hope.
they may do service and support for Mac.
That is about it because
all the apps are for the Cloud.
Even replacement for Office is on the cloud
that is why ipad is the focus.
Were DEC and Honeywell this tunnel-visioned in their day?
“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
is your sentence layout designed to resemble poetry?
Dell wasn’t worried about their media player Rob Enderle helped them develop to compete with Apple’s iPod. See how far that got them? At least they had the sense to cancel it before they actually released it.
Blackberry doesn’t even have the sense of Dell, who listens to Enderle! Now that’s a sad state to be in!
I believe it does. In a recent study, I read that a large proportion of companies now consider the Mac a tool they will allow employees to use.
But I can’t help but remember a joke people used to tell back in the 90’s of Apple’s and IBM’s OS collaborations (Pink and Taligent).
“What do you get when you cross Apple and IBM?”
“IBM.”
Today I suspect it would not apply.
These are just quotes. To interpret anything meaningful from them is pointless. What do you expect them to say – that they are pooping their pants?
“But we have a value add that no one else can do.”
I’m willing to bet that, in his head, he’s talking about physical keyboards.
pure unconscious stream of coincidence.
problem was they chose C++ in order
to copy NeXTStep.
Even Java couldn’t copy OpenStep enough
to take over the desktop even though
Sun had hired some NeXT employees.
Even Microsoft hasn’t come up with OOP API
as good as Cocoa with their 10 years of .NET
and its variants.
So good API is hard to develop when OS and language is not the correctly selected.
In Case of Apple wanted backward compatibility
and so did IBM and thus they both fought each other.
You are talking about PC and DELL reprentative is
talking Cloud.
In which we have Microsoft, Amazon, Google and then IBM competing with very small size market in terms of revenue but that is their growth area.
They are hoping to squeeze monthly subscription fees from hapless corporations.
I think it can be instructive to observe exactly how each CEO chooses to shit-talk his or her biggest competitor. We get an opportunity to learn a bit about the culture of a faceless company that way, and perhaps observe behavior patterns that can help us anticipate future foolishness.
Yep. What do you want them to say? “We’re doomed!”
At any rate, I can’t believe how much Apple blogs are freaking out about the Apple-IBM deal, going as far as requesting that IBM’s CEO use an iPhone. Get over yourselves. In all likelihood, nothing grand will come out of the deal. IBM has deals like this in place — where they resell their products, develop on their platforms, or promote their solutions — with thousands of companies. Granted, Apple is not just some random corporation that sells B2B solutions. Still, to IBM, this is very likely not a huge deal.
if that’s what you call it. Just makes it harder to read and harder to understand what you’re trying to say.
oh, yeah, it’s no big deal… riiight.
Maybe English is a second language for this person?
In this case, I have to agree with Kyron. I know all the terms you are using, I know the history between Apple and IBM but I have no idea what you are saying here. Is English a second language for you? If so, maybe fewer words? Are you using a translator? I’m not being snarky here, just trying to be helpful.
Moe is being read into this alliance than the electrons used to describe it. IBM and Apple have formed a strategic a;;iance with very specific goals. All of the commentary is regarding things outside of the agreement. IBM has been working on iOS software for a while to run their enterprise products. This agreement with Apple simply makes that more efficient and allows them to use APIs that previously required workarounds.
Apple gains the clout of enterprise in Big Data apps for iOS devices having the IBM imprimatur.
This has nothing to do with Dell or blackberry.
Blackberry has already been reduced to an also ran. Its main product is secure messaging. The Apple-IBM deal has nothing to do with this.
No, Lukas has it right. This is nice, but it is not earth shattering, will not cause the stock price to tick appreciably, and it will definitely not make me handsome.
BlackBerry and Dell have much more important things to worry about.
Like “avoiding bankruptcy in the near future”.
“You don’t want to be a strong guy in a market that is not growing.”
Right. Because it’s better to be struggling for breath… in a market that’s not growing.
One thing I keep wondering about with the IBM-Apple deal… Will this include IBM selling Macs into the enterprise? And if it does, will this be as big for the Mac as it will be for iOS devices?
Not worried, hmmm. Maybe they know something the world has overlooked.
Could It Be that ‘amateur hour’ & ‘let’s give the money back to shareholders & go private’ will be teaming up? Can we look forward to a special synergy and much more of all the stuff they’ve brought about individually.
We can only hope.
they may do service and support for Mac.
That is about it because
all the apps are for the Cloud.
Even replacement for Office is on the cloud
that is why ipad is the focus.
Were DEC and Honeywell this tunnel-visioned in their day?
“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
is your sentence layout designed to resemble poetry?
Dell wasn’t worried about their media player Rob Enderle helped them develop to compete with Apple’s iPod. See how far that got them? At least they had the sense to cancel it before they actually released it.
Blackberry doesn’t even have the sense of Dell, who listens to Enderle! Now that’s a sad state to be in!
I believe it does. In a recent study, I read that a large proportion of companies now consider the Mac a tool they will allow employees to use.
But I can’t help but remember a joke people used to tell back in the 90’s of Apple’s and IBM’s OS collaborations (Pink and Taligent).
“What do you get when you cross Apple and IBM?”
“IBM.”
Today I suspect it would not apply.
These are just quotes. To interpret anything meaningful from them is pointless. What do you expect them to say – that they are pooping their pants?
“But we have a value add that no one else can do.”
I’m willing to bet that, in his head, he’s talking about physical keyboards.
pure unconscious stream of coincidence.
problem was they chose C++ in order
to copy NeXTStep.
Even Java couldn’t copy OpenStep enough
to take over the desktop even though
Sun had hired some NeXT employees.
Even Microsoft hasn’t come up with OOP API
as good as Cocoa with their 10 years of .NET
and its variants.
So good API is hard to develop when OS and language is not the correctly selected.
In Case of Apple wanted backward compatibility
and so did IBM and thus they both fought each other.
You are talking about PC and DELL reprentative is
talking Cloud.
In which we have Microsoft, Amazon, Google and then IBM competing with very small size market in terms of revenue but that is their growth area.
They are hoping to squeeze monthly subscription fees from hapless corporations.
I think it can be instructive to observe exactly how each CEO chooses to shit-talk his or her biggest competitor. We get an opportunity to learn a bit about the culture of a faceless company that way, and perhaps observe behavior patterns that can help us anticipate future foolishness.
Yep. What do you want them to say? “We’re doomed!”
At any rate, I can’t believe how much Apple blogs are freaking out about the Apple-IBM deal, going as far as requesting that IBM’s CEO use an iPhone. Get over yourselves. In all likelihood, nothing grand will come out of the deal. IBM has deals like this in place — where they resell their products, develop on their platforms, or promote their solutions — with thousands of companies. Granted, Apple is not just some random corporation that sells B2B solutions. Still, to IBM, this is very likely not a huge deal.
if that’s what you call it. Just makes it harder to read and harder to understand what you’re trying to say.
oh, yeah, it’s no big deal… riiight.
Maybe English is a second language for this person?
In this case, I have to agree with Kyron. I know all the terms you are using, I know the history between Apple and IBM but I have no idea what you are saying here. Is English a second language for you? If so, maybe fewer words? Are you using a translator? I’m not being snarky here, just trying to be helpful.
Moe is being read into this alliance than the electrons used to describe it. IBM and Apple have formed a strategic a;;iance with very specific goals. All of the commentary is regarding things outside of the agreement. IBM has been working on iOS software for a while to run their enterprise products. This agreement with Apple simply makes that more efficient and allows them to use APIs that previously required workarounds.
Apple gains the clout of enterprise in Big Data apps for iOS devices having the IBM imprimatur.
This has nothing to do with Dell or blackberry.
Blackberry has already been reduced to an also ran. Its main product is secure messaging. The Apple-IBM deal has nothing to do with this.
No, Lukas has it right. This is nice, but it is not earth shattering, will not cause the stock price to tick appreciably, and it will definitely not make me handsome.