jack dee

Apple Seems Desperate to Enter Chinese Handset Market

Dropping the Rev share model , is simply Apple trying to make money in china.
Apple is fully aware that any sale is better than no sale and just like dell , msft, Goog, aapl is willing to cut margins to make sales in a market where being a player matters.

What this does show is that AAPL is not a special case like many fanboy non investor types would think , they are just another company trying to make a buck and willing to do what is needed.

Desperate? perhaps just concerned about market share and brand protection; If apple did not make a deal the phones or copies would be sold anyway, just not by apple.

Dell Launching a Smartphone: Bad Idea from the Get-Go?

"With a failing PC business"

where a story starts like this you really have to figure the whole thing is a POS.

Dell does not have a "failing PC business" . launching any new products that might have higher margins is the best thing they can do....

Will it work? well the world is a lot bigger than people here in the USA seem to think , there are billions of people who dont give a rats if the phone is made by apple or dell.

more people on earth have never heard of Apple, dell, HP then have.