[dragnet2]

If they are so cheap and inexpensive to purchase why in hell are their profits down, and why are they laying off 8,000 Americans?

Because they rode the wave up at a time when everyone was buying a computer and now they’re riding it down in a “replacement”/”upgrade” market.

And if this is true, why didn't the geniuses at DELL see this coming? Were they too busy counting their profits from their Indian support centers?

[durasell]

And if this is true, why didn’t the geniuses at DELL see this coming? Were they too busy counting their profits from their Indian support centers?

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My guess is that they did see it coming. In recent years they added other products to their offerings, such as MP3 players, digital cameras, etc. but it wasn’t enough.

Plus, there really hasn’t been a must have “killer app” for a couple of years.