“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.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Bloodbath. iPhone and iPad, killers. SIDAGTMBTTS.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Tayster” for the heads up.]
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