@AngelikaMerkel@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 days agoI Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Daysphilmckinney.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square50arrow-up1410
arrow-up1410external-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 • 2 days agomessage-square50
minus-square@AA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish8•2 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-21 day 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