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HP is the amalgamation of Dell and Apple?

June 13, 2009

Quite the strategy:

If you follow the PC business, you might be asking now about Hewlett-Packard. H.P. is doing better than Dell. And the company fancies itself as more than the world’s largest packager of Intel chips into cheap boxes. The company talks of innovative technology, exclusive software and artfully designed cases. I’ve never been convinced that any of this is much more than window dressing so long as the key features of H.P.’s products are defined by Microsoft.

In that sense, H.P. wants to be Apple, but it has the business of Dell. In that muddled context, Palm might better fit in there.

I see just as it is: a slightly less crappy Dell.