alt Hacker NewsAnyone recall IBM of the mainframe pre-PC days, and how different it was compared to post-redhat acquisition?
If you'd told me in 1987 DEC was going to disappear up it's own fundament and be absorbed by Compaq, and then HP I would have laughed you off the floor.
Or Sun be Oracle. And then Oracle try to morph into hyperscaler, and sort-of.. well existing Oracle customers aside, .. fail?
Companies change. Nintendo was a 19th century playing card manufacturer.
Kodak was a very innovative Photography related enterprise.
Xerox invented the workstation. So tell me where Xerox is now? "Xerox Holdings"
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astrange • today at 7:03 AM
> Nintendo was a 19th century playing card manufacturer.
Still is one, just does other things too.
Yeah I don't think Apple will ever be an AI company. It's just not in their DNA. They do consumer computers. It's all they've ever really been good at. When they stray very far from that it doesn't go well.