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Michael Dell vs. Steve Jobs: Let’s get ready to rumble…
The best moment of Michael Dell’s appearance at D: All Things Digital might be this classic tidbit from Engadget.com.
During the audience Q&A, Engadget reports, someone asked Dell if he could take Steve Jobs in a fight. Dell’s response: “Yeah, I could take him.”
Having seen both men standing side-by-side, I can say the size advantage clearly goes to Dell. But then you never know what sort of Zen mastery Jobs might have lurking up those black-turtleneck sleeves.
I think I’d have to put my money on Dell — just can’t discount a Texas boy’s toughness.
Comments
By Don King
May 28, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this
Ultra Zen Violence:
Steve Jobs versus John Mackey
By Otto
May 28, 2008 9:20 PM | Link to this
Dell’s punches would be boring — simple jabs. And none would work. Dell would sweat his clothest through. Jobs’s punches would be completely unexpected and nearly always successful. He’d rarely sweat. And the way he fought would make everyone wonder why everyone doesn’t fight like that.
By JSS
May 29, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this
Dell is a tub of blub
By keith
May 29, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this
Michael Dell wouldn’t fight Steve Jobs - he would outsource the fight to someone in India.
By Jan
May 30, 2008 1:42 AM | Link to this
I’ll bet that Dell within 5 years is part of Lenovo.
By Aaron Miller
May 30, 2008 4:18 AM | Link to this
“Yeah, I could take him.” Well, why not take him on where it matters? Like in the big ring of the marketplace. Try innovating something new again Mikey instead of spouting false machismo? Yes, you were great once long ago with supply chain optimization, you chumped Apple good. But since then, they’ve done iPod and now iPhone. C’mon champ, show us what you’re made of! Or STFU.
By STL
May 30, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this
“Try innovating something new again Mikey … ” They have never innovated anything except beating suppliers down on cheap components.
By Ben Dover
May 30, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this
Michael Dell can’t take on Steve Jobs….. He’s too busy shutting down Dell & returning the money to the shareholders….. Mikey, how’s that crow taste? He likes it! Hey Mikey!
By Nice Monster
May 31, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
Steve Jobs would surprise Dell with a knock out move but Dell would duplicate it within a 12 to 19 month time span. He would then have 9 ad agencies market the move in 9 segment levels with an exciting corporate culture name that 30 to 43 year old MBA’s found fresh and exciting.
Nice Monster
By Some Guy
June 1, 2008 7:30 AM | Link to this
A couple of years back when I was working for Apple, I went to Austin on a business trip. My colleagues and I went out to dinner, and the table next to us was a group of Dell employees. They apparently noticed our Apple staff shirts, and they were dead quiet, hanging on our every word throughout the meal.
I wonder what they thought they could learn?