I’ll jump in and say what’s going to be said. About all those Chinese components and use of Chinese underpaid workers! By Lenovo, HP, Dell and Acer! Particularly Lenovo, a Chinese company. Probably one good reason why Apple’s sales of computers are growing, an American company building computers with components here in the U.S.A.! Those other companies should take a lesson from Apple! (Waiting for the crazies to respond...)
I love my Mac Mini, but Acers and Lenovo are chinese companies now.let’s also not forget that iphones made by foxpro.
fwiw, i would take taiwanese pc components over chinese anytime. case in point, ASUS is my favorite.
Win8 explains erosion in PC market.
appl and HP got some boost in 2014 by the end of windows xp support. Some stayed with windows some went with tablets.
2015 HPQ splits in two parts. Lenovo buys the pc/printer part, and Oracle buys the enterprise part to get whats left of EDS/Autonomy. Should net HPQ $50 per share and by this time next year HPQ will no longer exist.
Apple lead the way to increase assembly line workers' pay by putting in their contracts that workers on Apple assembly lines be paid three times the going rate for assembly line workers. By 2010, Apple assembly line workers were earning that rate. . . while workers on HP, IBM, Sony, Microsoft, and all other assembly jobs were earning the equivalent of $128 a month plus room and board, Apple's assembly line workers were getting the equivalent of $384 a month assembling iPhones and then iPads plus room and board. This is why there were always thousands of applicants for each job opening when they became available on Apple lines. Terry Gou saw how much more productivity Apple workers turned in announced that by the end of 2012, ALL workers would be raised to that level . . . and by the end of 2013 the rate was the equivalent of $700 with overtime. . . but factory workers must pay room and board, but it is not very expensive. Many opt to live in town.