I'm not going to bother to go over any more of the trip to Atlanta. Know why? It's boring to blog about. At least noticeably more boring than the request I got to blog about the accidental teabagging I got from a 70 year old guy at the gym over a lunchtime workout. However I'll spare you that one as well.

But yesterday marked a momentous occasion. Ten years ago Michael Dell, purveyor of boring Windows boxes, said that in some magical world where he were head of Apple Computers Inc. he would close the doors and give the shareholders back their money along with a heartfelt apology for being such a gigantic doucheball.

Well, Dell, how's that decade treating you?

Oh wait, I think I know:

Yeah. Not so good for Dell. 10 years of stock price statistics don't lie. Maybe it's iPod "halo effect", maybe it's perceived "elite" status that comes from owning an Apple machine, maybe... whatever. Doesn't matter. Dell had their chance. They made an mp3 player (remember the Dell DJ? No? Neither does anyone else), yet they suffered no halo effect. Maybe they just got wrong what so many others continue to fumble. People want a pleasant computing experience. Back in '98 Steve Jobs was still sorting out the master plan for Apple. Things were still in pretty dire straits. He had his magic man Jonathan Ive in place and the cute gumdrop iMacs, but he was still sorting out the tasty treats to come. And he did, with a vengeance.

When I held my first iPod, one of the first ones in Nebraska I venture to guess, I remember thinking to myself that this gizmo is going to change the way things happen.

Fuck yeah it did.

So, Michael Dell, suck it.
And Ted Waitt can help you suck it. And he didn't do shit to Steve Jobs. It shows you what a spiteful a-hole I really am.

Enjoy, kiddies.
Huzzah

(Thanks to Gizmodo for the heads up)