Dell May Sell Computer Factories Worldwide

Source: Bloomberg

Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Dell Inc. may sell its manufacturing plants worldwide and has approached contract computer manufacturers, the Wall Street Journal reported today, citing people familiar with the matter.

The proposed sales, intended to slash costs, mark a shift from Dell's strategy of making its own products, the Journal said. Instead, Dell plans to have contract manufacturers make all its computers, the paper reported.

Dell, the world's second-biggest maker of personal computers, aims to raise profitability after reporting earnings that missed analysts' estimates as it cut prices to take market share from industry leader Hewlett-Packard Co. Selling factories to focus on sales and marketing may aid efforts by the Round Rock, Texas-based company to expand its product range.


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Great idea, sell your factories so you have to pay someone else to make the product! More hands in the cookie jar is a sure to raise profits. Only an American company would expect to prosper by selling it's assets and pay someone else to do the work.

Fuck Dell.

what's a company to do?

No woman should be illegal.

If the Kenyan had been half-Kenyan, we'd have a Candidate not afraid to say that right now.

By not having buildings Dell will make no commitment to the communities where its computers are assembled. Their production can move to wherever the labor/production costs are cheapest, and their contract workers be damned.

That practice contributes to foreign governments working against the adoption of progressive labor and environmental policies for their own people in order to "be competitive." The 20th century gave history enough examples of this to understand how this practice works under post-colonialism/neocolonialism to produce countries run by authoritarian military/industrial juntas who behave as though they hate their own citizens.

With the key word being "cheapest."

the next generation of outsourcing, if you will. You don't suppose the product could suffer from such practices!?!?!

product development and engineering to save costs as well. Quality became job twenty-something. They took on the Microsoft mentality, get it out there and let the end user be the "beta" tester, just without that user knowingly "signing up" for that task. (Of course MS considers all users development testers - but I digress) Testing only went so far as to make the MS Windows Logo, maybe a few PR benchmarks not much else. Other OEMs did the same in order to stay competitive on pricing.
Mediocrity - it's the American way.......

Competition is pretty much based on nothing but pricing now. We've acquired the taste for cheap, low quality shit.

actually, they have been for maybe 5 years. I was disgusted by how my last Dell was put together. That's why I'm rockin an HP now.

I'll buy from the local shops from now on.

Build your own or buy from local shops if you want to do something about it. I am not surprised by this move, but it is disappointing.

made in china by slaves...

but almost all the parts are made overseas. :(

"I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." Maybe one of your Republican friends will buy Dell from you.
You've finally figured out how to make your piece of shit computer worse. Yeah, sell manufacturing to the lowest bidder.

:eyes: or :sarcasm:

My 1995 Dell is still running. The one I bought in 2004? RIP. Arrived as a lemon and went downhill from there. Crashed and burned about two months after the warranty was over. Surprise!

I HATE, HATE, HATE Dell. I will never forget what they put me through when my 'lemon' arrived. Two and a half months of hell dealing with their 'customer service' HAHAHA department.
If my house was on fire and I had to call Dell customer service to reach 911, I'd let the house burn.
They are THAT bad. Have I mentioned I HATE them? :mad:

I knew they wouldn't be here 5 years. Gave the fuckers everything and a bag of chips too as incentives to come to the Triad.