alt Hacker NewsHP, noted compulsive buyer of complete junk, in buying complete junk shocker (see Autonomy, Palm, etc).
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Sohcahtoa82 • last Wednesday at 8:39 PM
HP is a bizarre company.
Like, I think they recognize that printing is a dying business. They want to pivot to something else, but they have no idea what to pivot to. They keep buying out other companies, but then effectively canceling the product.
lemonish97 • last Wednesday at 5:35 PM
To be fair, HP buying Compaq in the early 2000s was pretty huge, considering they are doing decently well today because of their PC market share.
Palm was the opposite of complete junk. WebOS was absolutely ahead of its time back then and the pre devices were great