Maybe if you stopped building cheap plastic crap, loading it up with garbage software and boxing it in such as way as to make unpacking it as annoying and unpleasant as possible, you wouldn't be having these problems.
Dell Chief Financial Officer Brian T. Gladden admitted during the company's first-quarter 2013 earnings conference call on Tuesday that its results "were mixed."
"We fell short of our own expectations," he said, according to a transcript by Seeking Alpha. "There were some areas where our execution was not as expected, and there also are some market dynamics that created some headwinds for us."