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Mas: Not great news for anyone:/

In US traditional retail there are these companies that compete in desktop: HP, Gateway/Emachines,Medion(very small player), Sony, rarely a whitebox brand but these are very rare now in most accounts. It pushes the balance to people like HP(who holds dominant retail market segement share) and of course dell, through mail order but a significant factor.

US retail is an extrememly mature market and the smaller brands simply can't compete, margins are single digits across the board even for the retailers. Sadly the UK will have fewer choices now but I would expect the pattern of US retail to follow there. Hopefully a local brand will replace that one so that competition remains strong. It was fairly significant there? Don't know my UK pc brands but I remember when Tiny came to the US. It was a collosal failure as a retailer but it was an interesting company:) They were marketing a shuttle like cube years ago...