BU Now » Information Systems Department http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow News, information and research from Boston University Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Dell to roll out iPad rival http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/05/25/dell-to-roll-out-ipad-rival/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/05/25/dell-to-roll-out-ipad-rival/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 18:25:30 +0000 Dick Taffe http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=5702 Dell StreakWith Apple having sold its one millionth iPad last month, Dell says it will roll out its 5-inch-screen rival tablet — The Streak — next month in England in in the U.S. later in the summer.  It will run on Google‘s open-source Android operating system.  School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, chairman of the Information Systems Department, asks what Dell can do to differentiate and win, beyond a lower price point which depends on scale.

“More interesting question is, how will these Android-powered tablets perform against Apple iPad?  That is the real battleground.”

Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, venkat@bu.edu

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