Layoff from manufacturer after poor sales of Blackberry PlayBook
Layoff from manufacturer after poor sales of Blackberry PlayBook
When a manufacturer of tablet Blackberry PlayBook maker RIM thousand employees will be fired because production is significantly reduced after disappointing sales.
Digitimes writes that Wednesday. Quanta Computer, the manufacturer in question, confirms that there are redundancies, but it will not say what the reason is.
According to anonymous sources are people out because the production is reduced considerably Blackberry PlayBook. Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) recently announced that sales of the Tablet PC disappointing.
Blackberry PlayBook sales
During the quarter, 200.000 Blackberry PlayBook sold at an expectation of 490.000 copies. Previously expected RIM still 4-5000000 tablets sale throughout 2011; according to the source during the quarter was much stock at the stores which only 100,000 were shipped Blackberry PlayBook.
As a result, Quanta Computer has significantly scaled back production in order to minimize losses from Blackberry PlayBook.