“Dell is definitely pulling the plug on the smartphone business, globally” Jean-Baptiste Su reports for Forbes. “A tough decision, leaving a market that is expected to reach $150.3 billion in 2014, according to MarketsandMarkets.”
“Earlier this year, the Round Rock, Texas-based computer company stopped selling its mobile devices in the U.S. Although some could still be found in China where Dell hoped to continue,” Su reports. “But that’s all over now as well.”
Su reports, “So for Dell, it’s back to the future, I mean Microsoft with its latest tablet family, the XPS10, XPS12 and Latitude 10, all running Windows 8 or Windows RT.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Bloodbath. iPhone and iPad, killers. SIDAGTMBTTS.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Tayster” for the heads up.]
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I didn’t know they still made any.
I didn’t know they made any. Never seen one.
Dell came up with the first phoblet (phone-tablet) the 5″ streak. I remember Walt Mossberg at the press release commenting on how stupid it looked to use it as a phone.
Kinda funny when you think of it, samedung not only stole the interface from apple they copied the form factor from dell.
The bright side is every time I see an apple hating geek walking around with a ~5″ phoblet held against the side of his head it make me chuckle.
Now if only Dell would dump the PC business.
They do at least sell some decent monitors. Maybe that should be the only thing they do?
Dell doesn’t make their own monitors.
Yep, I know, that’s why I said they “sell” them. 😉
“Now if only Dell would dump the PC business.”
It’s not up to Dell, it’s the PC business that is dumping Dell, just as the smartphone business dumped Dell, the tablet business dumped Dell and before that, the MP3 player business dumped Dell.
Dell made smartphones?
-“Dell made smartphones?”-
No, they made Dellphones.
Joe
Also known as “Dullphones”.
Not even the “Dell Dude” could save this one at the risk of looking terminally uncool and getting tarred & feathered by his young peers.
Dell have the blinkers on. The only direction they are travelling is down. Aw, poor Michael Dell…
That brand just can’t survive today
That report must be way wrong..
Just ask Eric T. Mole, he said that Android was wining the smartphone war and apple is losing it. lol
What a cryin’ shame.
Dell made smart phones?!?!
The problem for Dell is that the brand equates to “cheap” and ” low quality.” No one wants to use a “Dell” phone. It’s the same problem Microsoft has with “Windows.” Most people do not want to use a phone (or tablet) that is “powered by Windows” or ” designed by Dell.”
So dumping Android cost Google, what, 150 phones?
You know, at this point, Michael Dell should simply liquidate the company and return the proceeds to the shareholders.
Clever boy!
The point wasn’t android was only losing an insignificant amount of smartphone sales.
It was that dell was switching tablets to windows. Which in the enterprise market it may gain some traction.
Adios MF
Sigamigabitts, indeed!
Go Apple!
In the past I used to smirk at news like this but stop because I realize people are usually out of a job when things like these occurr.
Foxconn will just move those folks over to an Apple assembly line.
Everything Dell makes is shit.
I heard they leak oil.
At one point in time, years ago, Michael Dell made a stupid comment about Apple. And I still resent him for it.
Dell used to be industrial leader in build-to-order model in the mainly MSFT-PC world and it’s servers & related business are doing “well”. However, like HP, RIMM, Microsoft, Nokia…etc, Dell lacks the foresight to anticipate the explosive growth of mobile platforms and fail to innovate, it’s suffering from it’s own mistakes.
With MSFT’s Windows 8 fails to gain significant traction in both consumer and business sectors, with Dell being one of the largest MSFT’s OEM partners, I doubt Dell’s long term survivability.
my 2 cents…