I remember Carly Fiorina getting hired and almost immediately things started turning to shit.
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9point6@lemmy.world 11 months agoWas gonna say I vaguely remember when HP implied some level of quality
DrBob@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I don’t know, it often seems that the prior ceo (often with the help of the board) sets a company up for quick profits, but long term doom. Then he leaves and they miraculously hit their first female CEO (see GM, Yahoo, Reddit, Blizzard, Twitter (currently)).
DrBob@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I don’t disagree with that, but she knew exactly what she was brought in to do and jumped in with both feet. Would it have been someone else if she turned the gig down? Of course. But she said yes so it was her.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Oh yeah, I forgot to add that Carly specifically does is probably a pretty terrible person (hard not to be when vying for republican office). Good point.
Godort@lemm.ee 11 months ago
HP is still plenty serviceable as long as you’re getting HP Enterprise. The consumer stuff has been trash for almost 20 years now.
VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
HP and HPE are two separate companies.
Godort@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I suppose that explains the difference in quality and usability
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ooooooooh
that explains a lot
egeres@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Actually, they are still ahead of the competition in industrial printing, their indigo and pagewide web presses are very good and reliable, but of course those products belongs to a whole different market segment
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Running Linux on a HP Victus desktop. The hardware is fine (I got it at a good price when my last home built PC crapped out and graphics cards were overpriced)… Bloat. Bloat everywher in windows.
dan1101@lemm.ee 11 months ago
HP was indeed affordable and good. They made good laptops and laser printers for many years.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Emphasis on the past tense.
Alchemy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Strong emphasis. I had an HP laptop in college in 2006. I believe I took good care of it. It freezes one day in the middle of homework, I pull the battery out in frustration. It never turned on again. No idea what I did but it died.
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did you pay for the antifreeze? That’s probably why
DanglingFury@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Back in my day…