The Entire D6 Interview With Dell Computer’s Michael Dell (3 of 3)
by Kara Swisher
Posted on October 1, 2008 at 3:53 PM PT
We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.
Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know).
But–as many readers have requested–they will all be available in their entirety in this column.
Here’s an interview that Walt Mossberg did with Michael Dell, the founder of the once-high-flying computer company who has returned as its CEO. Dell was forced to resume the role in 2007 after changing market conditions caused the company to falter and competition from Apple (AAPL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Sony (SNE) increased.
The video of the interview is in three parts, all of which I have posted this week.
In this third part, Dell talks about longtime efforts at Dell (DELL) to push green initiatives in the personal computer industry and smaller-sized computing devices versus mobile phones.
Dell then takes questions from the audience about the blogosphere, Dell marketing efforts versus Apple, fist-fighting chances versus Steve Jobs (Dell can take him, he claims!) and cloud computing.
Comments
dell has a lot of work to do to make up for its offshore support fiascos
end of the day a pc is a commodity with thin margins
dell cannot escape that market fact
Posted by Sam Harrison at October 1st, 2008 at 8:19 pm