What do you mean by that? Aren’t IBM the gleaming gold standard of ruining your market dominance with idiotic management practices and investor-driven shortsightedness?
If anything, I am surprised they still had schemes that incentivise employees by distributing some form of equity
Aren’t IBM the gleaming gold standard of ruining your market dominance with idiotic management practices and investor-driven shortsightedness?
Honestly, when I think “IBM”, I can’t help but think of the company that built the counting machines for the Nazis back in the 1930s.
I expected more from a renowned company, rookie mistake I guess.
They went shitty decades ago.
I’d say at best the PC wars is a good demarcation, maybe even before then.
The Original Macintosh was an attack at how shitty IBM was.
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
IBM is what a company that survived crossing to the other side of the enshittification fence looks like. They are profitable, for sure, but they have nothing of value to offer to an actual human being. They only speak corpo and their only semi-amiable relationships are with other corporate entities via contracts, negotiations, arbitration, and lawsuits. It’s functionally and physically incapable of communicating, offering a product or relating with an average real person, for they haven’t known what that is in at least three decades.
lauha@lemmy.one 10 months ago
IBM has always been a business-to-business. Their name literally comes from International Business Machines.
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I suppose the several IBM PCs I owned in the 80s and 90s were all just hallucinations. Useful hallucinations though, they taught me to use DOS and to program in BASIC.
lauha@lemmy.one 10 months ago
I don’t think I claimed they don’t do consumer stuff but business stuff has always been their core business.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
IBM wasn’t interested in PCs, and they were already enshittifyjng by then.
XEAL@lemm.ee 10 months ago
A company is not necessarily limited to the activities implied by its name.
lauha@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Did I say that? OP complained that IBM has become so business oriented recently, but that has always been its core business.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They began that way, then they branched into personal computation when that became a thing. Then they took a machine gun to their feet in that market
phillaholic@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It’s was too much hassle for too little profit. Their bread and butter is having regular people not remember they still exist.
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
Exactly this. The effort of selling one z Series is not one million times higher than selling a laptop, but the profit is.