Dell To Sell Its Computer Factories 249
Anti-Globalism sends us to a Wall Street Journal for a report that Dell plans to sell its factories in an effort to revamp its production model. Quoting:
"Dell's plants are still regarded as efficient at churning out desktop PCs. But within the industry, company-owned factories aren't considered the least expensive way to produce laptops, which have been the main driver of growth lately and are complex and labor-intensive to assemble. Rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co. years ago shifted to contract manufacturers -- companies that provide production services to others -- to build their portable computers. H-P builds "less than half" of its PCs in facilities it owns, wrote Tony Prophet, H-P's senior vice president for PC supply chain, in an e-mail. Contract manufacturers can generally produce computers more cheaply because their entire operations are narrowly focused on finding efficiencies in manufacturing, as opposed to large firms like Dell, which must also balance marketing and other considerations."
Re:Price, the only consideration? (Score:5, Funny)
This of course applies to 3-12 year olds also!
Why, I see you are quoting from the Divine Book of Anarcho-Capitalist Boundless Universe-Devouring Avarice. And it says within: "You shallt not stop until 16 hour work day at a mining facility is granted for every of ye 3 year olds, as is their right, for it is ordained by our Lord Mammon that the only conceivable in a pious land alternative be ... brothels and street panhandling! So sayeth we! Verily!"
Why, if it weren't for the enterprising Priests of Limitless Greed, we would all be ruined by our childhoods of prostitution, having never tasted the glorious privilege of back-destroying labor at a ripe age of 6. What would we ever do without our Magnanimous Capitalist Benefactors of Trickle Down Economy?!
Re:The one surprise in the article... (Score:2, Funny)