PC or Not PC That Is The Question For Lenovo at Robert Pogson

Look at the specs for Lenovo’s latest:

“LePhone K860 smartphone featuring Samsung Electronics’ quad-core Exynos 4412 processor, 1GB RAM, Android 4.0, 5-inch 1280 by 720 touch screen and 8-megapixel rear camera.”

see Lenovo offers quad-core LePhone K860.

Lenovo sold 5 million smart phones last quarter and plans to sell 20 million in 2012 with 40 models. Tell me they are not having fun… Lenovo sold 12.8 million x86/amd64 PCs last quarter. 5 million smart phones with specs that would embarrass most PCs from a decade ago and still fit in the pocket are a wonderful addition to Lenovo’s product line. Guess which are more profitable after paying M$ a licensing fee for Wintel PCs. Guess which software has the larger margin, FLOSS or that other OS? Guess which give Lenovo real independence from M$’s interference in their business.

Lenovo had huge growth in profit last year and only 16% of revenue comes from North America. They do sell a lot of PCs in regions where GNU/Linux flourishes.

If Lenovo and other OEMs can make a decent living selling FLOSS on smart phones they have a hedge against any disruption in income due to M$’s penchant for disaster like Vista and “8″. They also have a cushion to use if they decide to ship more GNU/Linux PCs. OEMs would be glad to be paid more for their labour making hardware and less for selling M$’s stuff. Lenovo makes PCs of many kinds. They don’t have to make Wintel PCs.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.

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1 Clarence Moon Aug 17th, 2012 at 6:21 am

Guess which…

You always seem to be guessing, Mr. Pogson. Why is that? My guess is that there is no evidence you can point to instead.

Lenovo’s income is a rather small potato compared to the big IT companies and their quarterly profits match up with what Microsoft generates in a little more than one business day. And 85% of their revenues are from Windows PCs. Can you guess how likely they are to abandon that?