AngelikaMerkel@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoI Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Daysphilmckinney.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down11
arrow-up113arrow-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 · 12 days agomessage-square35linkfedilink
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 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-up1·edit-211 days 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