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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I still don’t understand why they sold off their PC/Laptop/printer businesses....


6 posted on 09/17/2013 10:18:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
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To: Red Badger
I still don’t understand why they sold off their PC/Laptop/printer businesses....

There's no money (markup) in it; it is the same reason Proctor & Gamble sold off best-selling Comet Cleanser.
8 posted on 09/17/2013 10:20:36 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: Red Badger
I still don’t understand why they sold off their PC/Laptop/printer businesses....

I have a hunch IBM doesn't care for competition.

14 posted on 09/17/2013 11:03:33 AM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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