AngelikaMerkel@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoI Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Daysphilmckinney.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1405arrow-down110
arrow-up1395arrow-down1external-linkI Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Daysphilmckinney.substack.comAngelikaMerkel@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoThat was particularly grisly. It sure went to shit fast, didn’t it.
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoUp until that point hp had a stellar engineering reputation. They could have milked that for many more years, but it takes real talent to destroy that so quickly and completely
minus-squareShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-211 hours ago Fires the entire R&D department Changes the company slogan to “Innovate”
That was particularly grisly. It sure went to shit fast, didn’t it.
Up until that point hp had a stellar engineering reputation. They could have milked that for many more years, but it takes real talent to destroy that so quickly and completely