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Fujitsu Spins Off Its PC and Mobile Divisions (engadget.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the decision-could-affect-tens-of-people dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Back in February, Sony unloaded the part of its business that built PCs. Now, a year later, competitor Fujitsu is doing the same. The company announced it would be spinning off its PC and mobile business, effective 1 February 2016. Your first reaction was probably, "Fujitsu had a PC and mobile business?" You're not alone, and this is likely why the split is happening. In their press release, they say, "With the ongoing commoditization of ubiquitous products, mainly of PCs and smart phones, it has become increasingly difficult to achieve differentiation, and competition with emerging global vendors has intensified." More simply: they couldn't make a competitive product. Hopefully, this is the start of a trend; the race to zero in the Windows laptop market is finally killing off some of the participants.

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  1. Expect lower quality hardware. by sethstorm · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As Lenovo bludgeoned ThinkPads and HP's moves eviscerated entire product lines, Fujitsu's spin-off will also reflect a lower quality product over time.

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    1. Re:Expect lower quality hardware. by Grishnakh · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If the thieves knew what all is in it, they would steal it just to cannibalize the components.

      No, they wouldn't. Thieves don't care about components, and don't want to spend time trying to sell technical items on Ebay. They want something they can hock quickly, which means something that has a high resale value at consumer places, and that means Apples.

      This is merely the nature of niche-market stuff versus mass-market shiny consumer crap. There's lots of very expensive industrial equipment, for instance, which easily costs 6 or 7 figures, but isn't in much danger of being stolen because thieves wouldn't know what to do with it. Lots of engineering workplaces have oscilloscopes and other test equipment costing high-5 figures or more; how often does that stuff get stolen? Never; they're in much more danger of their $2k Apple laptops getting stolen.

  2. Hopefully by Noah+Haders · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >Hopefully, this is the start of a trend; the race to zero in the Windows laptop market is finally killing off some of the participants

    I agree, pcs are more and more commoditized and it is harder to make a profit, but why is this something to hope for?