{"id":6203,"date":"2007-12-28T16:58:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T16:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/dells-xps-one-desktop.html"},"modified":"2007-12-28T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T16:58:50","slug":"dells-xps-one-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/dells-xps-one-desktop.html","title":{"rendered":"Dell&#8217;s XPS One desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/dell-xps-one-desktop.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have always wondered why the entire PC market is just so inept. Apple routinely designs better looking computers and charges a premium for such products. Not so for PC makers who think if they keep designing commodity looking products they will do better. Well surprise, this is not a winning strategy.<\/p>\n<p>To drive this point home in fact, Dell has done what I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/razr-thin-laptop.html\">suggested <\/a>back in a March, 2007 column where I asked if any PC maker can just copy Apple. Even if PC makers can&#8217;t innovate, I imagined that copying Apple should be easy enough to pull off.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Although Gateway tried to copy the iMac a while back, it took Dell to do a good enough job that The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Walt Mossberg took notice and actually <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119878234676253343.html\">complemented <\/a>their efforts. This is a big deal for Mossberg and for Dell.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Mossberg suggests Apple over the PC but this is partially because the PC uses Microsoft&#8217;s much maligned Vista operating system. Oh &#8212; and one last point, The Dell is more expensive than the Apple!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always wondered why the entire PC market is just so inept. Apple routinely designs better looking computers and charges a premium for such products. Not so for PC makers who think if they keep designing commodity looking products they will do better. Well surprise, this is not a winning strategy. To drive this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}