Except 3PAR is going away and a shadow of what it once was. If you had Dell previously, you likely had Compellent or Equalogics...which is a far cry from their storage portfolio now.
The "R&D" thing is something that transferred over from the purchase of EMC. And why, when Michael purchased EMC, he treated it completely differently, actually leaving EMC, now Dell EMC, headquartered out of the old EMC office in MA, and moving servers and networking under their arm. Leaving...
Not for nothing guys, but I think alot of you have no idea what you're talking about. This was a great move for a $80B revenue company still outgrowing their competition. Right now at $46/share it's a steal too.
Bottom line, the reason Dell is market leader in almost every IT category, is...
Release a brand new model...and then make it an inferior model...and this is what happens. 8 & 8S are only going to be sold in the workplace where companies don't bother with the extravagant option of the X. No individual who is willing to spend $800 on a brand new phone is not going to spend...
I use my phone a lot at night while in bed like I expect a lot of people do...I imagine it's not going to work very well in the dark lol.
Like being able to unlock with my fingerprint...this facial recognition is a poorly thought out "feature".