Dell: The Apple iPod Is Just a Fad

Dell CEO Kevin Rollins’s recently dismissed the Apple iPod as nothing more than a fad, and not a viable long term business strategy.

Kevin Rollins:

“It’s interesting the iPod has been out for three years and it’s only this past year it’s become a raging success. Well those things that become fads rage and then they drop off. When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman – a rage, everyone had to have one. Well you don’t hear about the Walkman anymore. I believe that one product wonders come and go. You have to have sustainable business models, sustainable strategy…[The Mac mini] might take some here and there, but Apple’s market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far. Where they’ve been making success recently is not in the computer business, but in the iPod music business. So this might be an interesting new product but I’m not really believing this is going to turn the industry upside down.”

You can read analyst Rob Enderle’s take on Apple in our latest Talk Back found here.

News found VIA Mac Minute and Engadget