AngelikaMerkel@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoI Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Daysphilmckinney.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1413arrow-down111cross-posted to: hackernews
arrow-up1402arrow-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 · 8 days agomessage-square50fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 days agoThat was particularly grisly. It sure went to shit fast, didn’t it.
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 days 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-up6·edit-27 days 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