But to consistently beat the industry's 15% secular annual growth rate, Dell needs China.
Last quarter, Dell's China sales - which are overwhelmingly to large corporations and organizations rather than to consumers, a market dominated by Beijing-based Legend Computer - were up 240% over the same period last year.
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So who decides to locate the manufacturing bases of Apple, Dell, and Nike to China or other countries?
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The growth in container traffic in the 1990s powered America's booming economy as retailers such as Wal-Mart bought goods from China and manufacturers such as Dell sourced parts from Asia for assembly in America.
The tech center in Cyberjaya is a stunner and is favored by very low taxes. (Mahathir deserves credit for that.) Malaysia's manufacturing center in Penang, where Dell assembles its laptops, is not as cheap as China is, but comes close.
Dell will face strong competition from smart phone vendors such as Nokia, Apple, RIM, HTC, Samsung and Motorola who have strong presence in countries like the U.S., China, Brazil, U.K. and India where Dell plans to introduce its phones over the next year.
Yesterday, the folks at BGPMon, who monitor such things, discovered that IDC-China Telecom had leaked spurious route announcements for such popular sites as dell.com, cnn.com, www.amazon.de, www.rapidshare.com causing them to be unreachable for some users.
Not according to John Legere, Asia Pacific president of U.S.-based Dell Computer, which has introduced its PC-selling websites in 16 countries including China.
Additionally, Dell released the results of an opinion poll after interviewing nearly 1, 600 students, parents and teachers in China, Germany and the United States.
Overseas, Dell has one facility in Hortolandia, Brazil, two in Ireland, one in Poland, and one each in China, Malaysia and India.
Critics said Dell's practice of selling direct to corporate customers, rather than through distributors, wouldn't work in China, where salesmanship is based on wining and dining, not pointing and clicking.
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