I Have Seen The Enemy
Posted September 26th, 2003 @ 09:45am by Erik J. Barzeski
I have seen the enemy, and man is he ugly. I'm used to Wintellian ripoffs being ugly, clunky, cumbersome, and non-intuitive, but this one has catapulted itself to the top of the "worst of the worst" list.
"The question is, how much and how far Dell can go with it?" says Dell President Kevin Rollins. "How many new products can Dell add to its portfolio? Where does it end? We think there's a somewhat limitless number of products and services we could get into."
A friend of mine joked:
Soon they'll have their own OS: "Deldows."
Where can I get a Dell electric toothbrush with Bluetooth? Ah, never mind that, I'm still trying to figure out what "somewhat limitless" means. Either way, Dell's potential to continue developing ugly, clunky, cumbersome, and non-intuitive ripoffs is… how should I put it… "somewhat infinite."
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Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 10:11am #
Somewhat Infinite
On Dell and its crappy Apple rip-offs.
Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 11:31am #
Jesus that's an ugly device. Funny design flaw noted at 2lmc:
Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 12:34pm #
President Kevin Rollins? I think Henry Rollins would be more likely, but then his design would be in blood-spattered black no doubt.
Also, for "how much and how far Dell can go with it" to work properly as a sentence, both "how much" and "how far" should fit with the sentence's terminus, "Dell can go with it." So, tell me Mr Rollins, "how much Dell can go with it?"
Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 1:55pm #
Damn, Dell has really gone down the crapper. Their designs are simply horrible.
Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 2:40pm #
Un-Dell-veloped...
Found this by way of this earlier today, and I had to laugh. As an owner of an iPod, I follow this stuff rather closely, because it seems that no matter how hard these other companies try, they just can't
Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 3:24pm #
Don't forget about the software interface. I like how it's exactly the same as the iPod's, but the battery is on the opposite side. By the way, here's a giant picture of the Dell.
Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 10:02pm #
Can't DELL (or any of the big PC Makers) as one of the biggest computer company in the world, come out with anything innovative other that to be a copy-cat. I guess most of the Wintel makers are just "pirates". They have been copying Apple since the 80's and claiming it's their innovation.
Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 11:12pm #
Originallity is still a virtue, right?
Dell's new music announcements and the new chrome Apple logo in recent build's of their new OS, Panther.
Posted 27 Sep 2003 at 10:27am #
In dutch we actually have the word 'del' it has the same pronunciation as Dell and means slut. And a cheap one at that. Surprisingly Dell has not changed their name for the Dutch market. Maybe it's not worth it or maybe it's true. 😉
But the truth is more likely to be that it doesn't really matter.
Posted 27 Sep 2003 at 11:17am #
Ketchup links
Dell's FugliPod... Still wondering how a computer company can take in billions of dollars in annual revenue and only divert about 50 cents worth of it into industrial design. Savages.
Posted 27 Sep 2003 at 1:26pm #
Oh my God!
It's like the Russians had designed it back in the 1960's.
It's like a beautiful woman with make-up that has been applied by a three-year-old.
It's a Swamp-Donkey, a Hose-Beast, it's just plain fugly!
Stick to what you're 'good' at Michael Dell, pimping for Bill Gates's God-awful OS with cheap, horrid PCs.
Posted 01 Oct 2003 at 1:53am #
Hmmm.... nice! You'd have thought at least the buttons that indicate forward/backward/play-pause could have been made so they didn't need icons.
Posted 09 Oct 2003 at 5:38am #
Not to say other jobs don't, but to be a designer is a very hard work.
Posted 11 Oct 2003 at 1:41pm #
People always say that to be creative, you need to think out of the box, but I never knew there was a box in the first place.