@AngelikaMerkel@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 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-up1417arrow-down111
arrow-up1406arrow-down1external-linkI Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Daysphilmckinney.substack.com@AngelikaMerkel@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 days agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squareOptionallinkfedilinkEnglish6•6 days agoThat was particularly grisly. It sure went to shit fast, didn’t it.
minus-square@AA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish8•6 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-square@ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-25 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