AngelikaMerkel@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 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-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-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 · 27 days agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·27 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-up0·edit-226 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