The name HP used to bring visions of the world’s best test and measurement equipment.
Now it is used on printers and ink. Agilent is hanging in there...but why give the good name away?
Thanks, oh sales wench - Carly Bimbo - who used the world’s best name for disposables, while watching the production of things she could never operate, let alone understand decrease, decrease, and decrease.
HP is a dead company walking.
High ink prices are not a long term business plan for success.
Another Windows 8 victim...
Fiorina killed it. Helped kill Lucent too.
INK!
The bustards!
I’ll never buy anything from HP.
HP bought Compaq who previously bought Digital. I worked for Digital and lost my job because of it. 20 years and I’m still cheesed.
The comment was in relation to outsourcing.
We were recently terminated from selling HP Ink Cartridges because our volume purchased with other office supplies through our distributor wasn’t high enough.
However, they would allow us to continue selling a line of printers.
Somehow the logic escaped them of why I would sell a printer I couldn’t sell ink cartridges for. When I asked the question I basically got an answer of “Duh, I dunno”
HP is right up there with Microsoft on my loathe list. I have a HP printer that purely sucks. Worst of all it will not accept refilled cartridges so I’m stuck subsidizing their incompetence.
As an HP shareholder, I'm a bit concerned, but I'm not panicking. Today's stock price decrease was about 2 1/2 %, nothing scary - at least not yet.
Perhaps all this gloom and doom talk is a bit overdone? I recall similar talk about IBM 20 years ago and IBM is still pretty strong, as far as I know.
FORMERLY_GREAT_AMERICAN_COMPANY_PISSED_AWAY_PING!
HP sold it’s soul back when they sold their test equipment.