Dell doesn’t plan on returning to the Android smartphone market any time soon, announcing that it will focus instead on creating Windows 8 touch-enabled computers and tablets.

The company’s VP of global operations, Jeff Clarke, spoke at the Dell World conference in Texas this week, saying the Android smartphone ecosystem needs a lot of investment in order to be really successful. With Android, Google and Amazon sell devices at no profit margin, or at a loss, only to make up for it in advertising or content revenues.

But purely as an Android manufacturer, with low margins on such devices, there wasn’t enough in the business for Dell it seems. Last year, Dell axed its Streak lineof Android devices in the U.S., though some versions of the devices were still available in Asia for a limited period after that.
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Source: PCWorld