Comment on IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points | Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses

• 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.

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  • 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.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IBM wasn’t interested in PCs, and they were already enshittifyjng by then.

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• XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A company is not necessarily limited to the activities implied by its name.

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  • 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.

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    • XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s what it sounded like and I’m not the only guy who saw it that way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That just means more than one people jump to conclusions

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• 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

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  • 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.

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• 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.

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