Lenovo says goodbye to the PC

[Puppy]

http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/201 ... ettansicht (german content)

The world's largest manufacturer of PCs and the iconic ThinkPads wants to focus entirely on supercomputer and data center. The radical turnaround was necessary, they said. (automatically translated)

[Ibthink]

Clickbait article, as expected when a major news-outlet writes about anything technology related.

Lenovo doesn´t make any money with servers and smartphones. They need the PC so they won´t quit the PC market anytime soon. Being one of the biggest manufacturers, they will probably be one of the manufacturers who survive the longest.

[Puppy]

I would say so but it indicates even more compromises and quality decline is coming anyway, quote:

I am not interested in the number one or two in the classic PC market," says Group Chief Yang Yuanqing. "It has no future, we must be the number one in the new markets." He means datacenter, supercomputer and mobile internet.

[Ibthink]

YY may soon leave Lenovo. His decision to invest in Motorola and the IBM Server business have proven gigantic failures so far for Lenovo and only the robust PC business saves them from running on a loss.

With the PC market shrinking, its also being refocused on the higher-end segments that actually produce growth, like workstations, gaming or very mobile thin Ultrabooks. The thing that originally facilitated the quality decline in the PC market was that it developed into a mass market where the lowest price was the most important thing. This is changing right now.

So I would expect the quality to increase in the future instead of decrease. Fewer people need PCs than 10 years ago, but those people who do also want better quality.

[Puppy]

YY may soon leave Lenovo. His decision to invest in Motorola and the IBM Server business have proven gigantic failures

Well, it is Lenovo turn to start a damage control after such (misleading ?) statement of a Lenovo representative.