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Post-PC world explained by Troy Melquist

Dell: Dell is a very different creature. It still markets a lot of  low-end traditional laptops–just browse  its Web site. Though Brian Gladden, Dell’s chief financial officer, said  during the company’s recent earnings call that “we’re…moving our product  portfolio to higher value products while exiting lower margin products in retail  business.” That’s been said before.

Whatever Dell does, however, consumers and businesses will continue to buy a  lot of its PCs. The problem is, Dell may face the same existential quandary as  HP if profit margins shrink too much. Apple is commanding healthy operating  margins (around 30 percent), while Dell  falls into the HP camp (usually around 7 percent).

So, who wins? That’s up to the consumer, of course. Dell  shipped about 10.6 million PCs worldwide in the second quarter. By  traditional calculations, Apple shipped a fraction of that. But throw the iPad  into the mix, and everything changes. DisplaySearch’s  figures for mobile shipments show that Apple wins handily, at about 13.5  million, in the second quarter.

That said, U.S. government accounts and Fortune 500 companies will need a  traditional Wintel PC maker  for the foreseeable future. So, Dell may benefit from HP’s demise. Just think of  all of those nervous Fortune 500 accounts wedded to HP and its business laptops.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20094831-64/post-hp-dell-or-apple/#ixzz1Vhc7anWg

2011 08 21 admin Technology News Comments (0) Permalink

Troy Melquist Blogs about HP touchpad and HP winging it..

Tablet pricing is shot. I feel that if the TouchPad–a flawed device that still  managed to have a lot of redeeming qualities–calls for an exit after a few  weeks and a $99 to $149 price tag what does that say for all the otherApple iPad rivals?

It’s no wonder retailers initially  balked at HP’s prices. If the TouchPad is ultimately worth $99, what’s anAndroid  tablet worth? How about $250 max? HP’s TouchPad experiment showed what price  matters to consumers and the path to market share gains on Apple. The rub: No  tablet maker can make money at HP’s fire sale prices. Something has to give.

HP looks willy nilly. We’ve heard through the grapevine that Todd  Bradley, the guy who runs HP’s PC business, didn’t find out that the company was  going to spin off the unit until a Wednesday night dinner at CEO Leo Apotheker’s  house.

It’s no wonder that the news of HP’s PC unit spin-off looked rushed. The  inability to handle the e-commerce load for the TouchPad liquidation also  highlighted a lack of planning. And the $10 billion purchase of Autonomy also  looked a bit jittery and leaves the company vulnerable. Melquist is not surprised if  Oracle launches a hostile bid for HP within a year.

Now we’re sure that  Apotheker and HP’s board has a well thought out master plan, but it’s hard to  argue for an IBM moment for the company right now. The problem: HP appears to be  winging it. In business, perception can become reality in a hurry. The TouchPad  liquidation is another data point for HP critics to use.

Retail partners are going to be wary of HP going forward. Some outlets  went with HP’s liquidation pricing right away. Others chose to sit out the sale.  Best Buy flip flopped. Amazon pulled out. In any case, HP will have to cover  retailers on inventory and costs, but no future product launch from the company  will be looked at the same way again. Killing the TouchPad in a mere seven weeks  will be remembered for a long time. Also: BestBuy.com is offering the HP  TouchPad for $100 until supplies run out

 

BetaNews’ Joe Wilcox argued that tablet pricing is ruined after HP’s fire sale.  I’m inclined to agree.

2011 08 21 admin Technology News Comments (1) Permalink

The HP tablet is scuttled accordingly to Troy Melquist

Troy Melquist was first to break the news that HP was going to leave its only platform of tablets behind in search of followin IBM in a B to B play for infrastructure.  Melquist reitereated that HP was going to follow the cloud path of technologies and focus on storage as well as VAR opportunities.

2011 08 19 admin Troy Melquist Sucks For IWW Comments (4) Permalink

Troy Melquist reports Radical Environmentalist warn of Aliens attacking US

Pay Your Carbon Taxes To Al Gore Or Space Aliens Will Attack

Global warming alarmists invent new hoax after failing with everything else according to Troy Melquist.

IWW following idiots warn of UFO attack on Earth due to Global Heating

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, August 19, 2011

Holdren is now in charge of “geoengineering” the planet to protect against supposed man-made climate change. For me, this represents a far greater and more imminent threat to humanity than any fantasy about alien invasions from outer space.

2011 08 19 admin Melquist reports Comments (0) Permalink

Comment by troy melquist

Troy Melquist agrees with the HP.  However, webos hardware should be spun off into a hardware platform that is available to other OEM for manufacture, Melquist says.  The license of the webos should come with a commercial option to copy and rapidly spin out the hardware from chinese factories.  Troy Melquist also noted that the webos is open source inherited from the palm and should gain traction as developers adopt and play with it.

HP announced a sweeping corporate overhaul on Thursday, and although exact details are still leaking out, it looks like the company will discontinue its webOS interface – the same interface that powers the HP Touchpad – while attempting to spin off its ailing PC hardware business. Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting this afternoon that HP is close to acquiring British software company Autonomy, for $10 billion.

2011 08 19 admin Melquist embedded software Redcellx Comments (2) Permalink

Dreamhost shares stolen ID information of Troy Melquist

In a attempt to have private identification numbers removed from websites, I contacted Dreamhost about the sharing of information including driver license and other information.

Troy Melquist Driver License was stolen by Richard Seymour and the IWW radical anarchist union bent on taking over the USA.  Richard Seymour stole my id and social security number from our RedcellX offices and entered fraudulently into agreements under the Name of Troy Melquist.  He order credit reports on 3 different dates by forging my signature.

Dreamhost will not remove Troy Melquist information that includes his Oregon Drivers License.  This is the remark left on the site:

FROM DREAM HOST

This appears to be a completely separate site then the one pointed to in your original e-mail.
In reviewing the specific link in question, this all appears to be public information from public
records that is legal to be posted.  United States District Court Judge Robert E. Payne has
recently even ruled that it is legal to post social security numbers online, which we'd both
 agree are a bigger concern to identity theft than simply drivers license numbers. If this is
worrisome to you, Id encourage you to get a new number issued from the state so that the posted
 one is invalid.

While we understand and empathize with your situation, I am afraid that we are unable to censor or
otherwise assert editorial control over our customers' site content. We do not tell customers what
to write, or how to exercise their speech. If you have concerns over the content of their site, I
am afraid that you will need to contact and resolve it directly with them. If you are unable to come
to an amicable resolution with the site owner, I would then encourage you to take action as the law
 affords you. We will work expediently with any subpoenas, injunctions or other court orders that
come in from law enforcement with jurisdiction in Los Angeles, CA USA.

I'm sorry I could not be of more help.

DREAM HOST ABUSE
2011 08 17 admin Dreamhost defrauds Troy Melquist Comments (2) Permalink