Re: If i was in charge of Dell
create new Technology and patents?
Making patents is easy. Esp. in USA.
Creating new tech that actually makes money is really really hard. Apple is very successful, yet ALL their products technology previously existed from other companies. They created a better experience, did better marketing with stuff that matches the marketing perception. It's no use being brilliant at marketing junk, even with innovation in it in the long term (Sinclair, Amstrad, though Amstrad stuff was much better made than Sinclair, but they were let down by their plastic cased PC, was it HDD issues? ).
We are at the commodity, the 1990s VCR & HiFi phase of computers, tablets, phones etc. All Dell can really do is do what they do better than competitors. They aren't the kind of company that's going to invent a new kind of storage (IBM maybe, but where is HP's memristor?). Perhaps they could develop a new Linux Distro with a better WINE to replace Win10. But I was involved with Dell's attempt to sell Linux based systems in 1999, and I'm sceptical that they can do that. OTH, who knows, perhaps MS will be distributing Linux to access their Cloud services. They did once own and sell Xenix and do have their own Linux flavour for Azure switches.
Dell do product development with other people's proven technology. I can't see them doing "blue sky Research".