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masklinn on Aug 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the T...

On the other hand, Jobs had founded the corp, had an almost mythical aura and the previous executive team had spent a decade fucking up Apple.

Oh, and he refocused the company on its original core business, where Apotheker is moving HP away from its historical roots.

tesseract on Aug 19, 2011 [–]

HP no longer has historical roots, it spun them off into Agilent some time ago.

masklinn on Aug 19, 2011 | [–]

yeah, that seems to be the common analysis of the move: the founder's vision was abandoned a while ago, they're just setting fire to the remnants junking the yard.

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