http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/07/news/inter...m.reut/?cnn=yes

Woo, they become the 3rd largest manufacturer in the world.

 

This is probably good for IBM, they made a few fatal mistakes way back when PC's were just starting to come out that they could never fully recover from.

 

I am curious what some of those fatal mistakes (by IBM) are. Can you please give me some examples. I don't know if this new company can compete with Dell and HP, but it will be interesting.

 

Way back in the day, the IBM suits decided that there wasn't a market or need for people to have personal computers in their homes....then the Apples came out. Oops. They were playing catch-up for many years.

 

I wish I had a 1.25 billion dollar "mistake" laying around to sell.

 

just another step in the quest for us chinese to take over the world

 

[QUOTE=TalonTSiDude,Dec 8 2004, 09:09 AM] Way back in the day, the IBM suits decided that there wasn't a market or need for people to have personal computers in their homes....then the Apples came out.

 

[QUOTE=WhiteS2k,Dec 8 2004, 09:01 AM] I am curious what some of those fatal mistakes (by IBM) are.

 

ibm machines costed too much.

the yellow man knows how to build the same machine at 1/3 the price w same or better quality.

thinkpad i heard will be renamed the chinkpad.


hehe. im going to buy an chinkpad and throw out my sony's . gotta support the motherland!

 

a little off topic, but i heard that sony got their name because the people who started sony wanted a name that would resonate wtih americans. what's more american than "sonny boy"?

any truth to this??