The other driving variable, which I left to implication, was inertia.
Right. That's pretty orthogonal to "how many laptop models is enough laptop models?" though.
No, there's really not. I've already explained the main variable here: Price.
So, I would like to be very clear: I understand that price is an important factor. Vostros are cheap and though you disagreed, your company viewed price as the most important thing. Many people and companies feel that way. I do understand that.
That does not even remotely explain why Dell has so many lines and models.
Most companies manage to have budget lines/models without such a brain-melting array of choices. You keep writing, essentially, "well we kept buying dell so I guess it worked!!!!"
But I could just as easily say "a lot of companies don't buy Dell, and Apple has like 100x the market value with like 1/10 of the models so obviously Dell is stupid" but that would not be accurate either because there are a looooooot of other variables.
Anyway, this conversation is going nowhere, and you don't have anything insightful to say, so thank you and good bye.
That does not even remotely explain why Dell has so many lines and models.
Most companies manage to have budget lines/models without such a brain-melting array of choices. You keep writing, essentially, "well we kept buying dell so I guess it worked!!!!"
But I could just as easily say "a lot of companies don't buy Dell, and Apple has like 100x the market value with like 1/10 of the models so obviously Dell is stupid" but that would not be accurate either because there are a looooooot of other variables.
Anyway, this conversation is going nowhere, and you don't have anything insightful to say, so thank you and good bye.