Comments on: Dell’s Mini is Mega for Box.net http://startupmeme.com/dells-mini-is-mega-for-boxnet/ Fri, 25 May 2012 04:33:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Bilal Hameed http://startupmeme.com/dells-mini-is-mega-for-boxnet/comment-page-1/#comment-10017 Bilal Hameed Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:38:15 +0000 http://startupmeme.com/dells-mini-is-mega-for-boxnet/#comment-10017 @ JayatDell. You are right to point out about the insight, I thought of mentioning this in the post, but I omitted it to concentrate more on the fact, that how this is going to be a big win for Box.net. I also think that instead of relying upon other services and startups to come up with providing infrastructure to Dell, Dell should rather do it on their own. To me it doesnt makes sense to put your users into others pockets. Just like the OS, storage would be more stickier than a box of hardware. A Dell user could easily shift to any competitive product, but it wont be that easy to shift your entire data hosted in a cloud to some place else. Thats just my 2 cents, of course one might argue that going into storage would be a far stretch for Dell and at the moment the company is concentrating on consolidating its core business. @ JayatDell. You are right to point out about the insight, I thought of mentioning this in the post, but I omitted it to concentrate more on the fact, that how this is going to be a big win for Box.net. I also think that instead of relying upon other services and startups to come up with providing infrastructure to Dell, Dell should rather do it on their own.

To me it doesnt makes sense to put your users into others pockets. Just like the OS, storage would be more stickier than a box of hardware. A Dell user could easily shift to any competitive product, but it wont be that easy to shift your entire data hosted in a cloud to some place else.

Thats just my 2 cents, of course one might argue that going into storage would be a far stretch for Dell and at the moment the company is concentrating on consolidating its core business.

]]> By: JayatDell http://startupmeme.com/dells-mini-is-mega-for-boxnet/comment-page-1/#comment-10011 JayatDell Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:57:07 +0000 http://startupmeme.com/dells-mini-is-mega-for-boxnet/#comment-10011 You hit on an important insight: The Mini was purpose-built to take advantage of cloud computing, hence the relatively limited amount of built-in storage and the tie-in with Box.net. It is also why we are not marketing the Mini as a laptop. It is a companion device optimized for Web-centric applications. Even with XP, the user experience will be different from that of a laptop PC. To follow up on UzEE's comment, we believe the Mini's value proposition resides comfortably between smart phones and laptops. You hit on an important insight: The Mini was purpose-built to take advantage of cloud computing, hence the relatively limited amount of built-in storage and the tie-in with Box.net. It is also why we are not marketing the Mini as a laptop. It is a companion device optimized for Web-centric applications. Even with XP, the user experience will be different from that of a laptop PC.

To follow up on UzEE’s comment, we believe the Mini’s value proposition resides comfortably between smart phones and laptops.

]]> By: UzEE http://startupmeme.com/dells-mini-is-mega-for-boxnet/comment-page-1/#comment-10004 UzEE Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:36:26 +0000 http://startupmeme.com/dells-mini-is-mega-for-boxnet/#comment-10004 It appears that this new web toy is going to compete in the advanced smartphone market with the likes of iPhone and Windows Mobile 6 based devices. It appears that this new web toy is going to compete in the advanced smartphone market with the likes of iPhone and Windows Mobile 6 based devices.

]]> By: Ryan http://startupmeme.com/dells-mini-is-mega-for-boxnet/comment-page-1/#comment-10003 Ryan Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:34:00 +0000 http://startupmeme.com/dells-mini-is-mega-for-boxnet/#comment-10003 This is surely a win for Box. I hope they're ready for the influx of traffic to their servers though. I'm personally a user of <a href="www.getdropbox.com">Dropbox</a> and can't find a better alternative so far. Let's see what Box can offer us next. This is surely a win for Box. I hope they’re ready for the influx of traffic to their servers though. I’m personally a user of Dropbox and can’t find a better alternative so far. Let’s see what Box can offer us next.

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