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-up1400arrow-down110cross-posted to: hackernews
arrow-up1390arrow-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-square50fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews
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-210 hours ago Fires the entire R&D department Changes the company slogan to “Innovate”
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