Now that IBM has sold out its once-flagship PC operations to Chinese computer maker Lenovo, 'Big Blue' has become "Big Red".
PC engineers are worried about being transferred to China and some are even getting their blood and DNA profiled in preparation for the Chinese organ farms in the event of a bad performance report... (ha)
I hear the official dress of an employee is no longer suit and tie but a baggy tan Mao jacket, with little red book in the breast pocket.....The new President sought to reassure workers, saying, "We won't be sending the workforce to China wholesale, but there will be some relocations." (read: some of you are going, some of you might be staying, and many of you are getting canned)
The word on the street is full of questions about how a company that even IBM couldn't make profitable is going to become profitable under the Chinese. The conclusion is that it won't. It will, instead, be used as a pillory by which the PC market will get dumped on, driving Dell, HP, and others out of business in a price war financed by Peoples Liberation Army bank accounts.
This could mean ever cheaper PCs for you and me, at the expense of any remaining US ownership in any large PC maker/seller. I predict PC prices under $150 within 2-5 years (provided my previous prediction on China doesn't also come to fruition.)
