Steve Jobs' first job was at HP and I think he said he loves the company so I wouldn't be surprised if apple buys it. exciting times imo
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Jobs never worked for HP, and I'd like to see a source for the quote.
Jobs' first job was at Atari.
Where do people get this stuff? Even if Jobs had worked for HP, he would never even consider, not for a second, buying a crappy low margin PC business.
"Steve's big breakthough actually came a couple years earlier.* While he was still a high school student, he had a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard"
Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High School and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California,[23] and frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California. He was soon hired there and worked with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee
source: http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=49
do a little research before you make yourself look dumb.
Check this out. Samsung may be gearing up to buy HP's PC division.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Personal-systems-Group-Quanta-Compal-Pegatron-Inventec,13281.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Personal-systems-Group-Quanta-Compal-Pegatron-Inventec,13281.html
It's going to end up being either Samsung, or Asus, or another asian company.
People are already predicting Dell to follow HP soon.
Apparently PC sales are plummeting, and never had more than a 5% profit margin at best. The only company that is beating the odds is Apple with it's focus on mobile products like the iPad, iPhone, iPod, and MBA.
It looks like the iPad was the straw that broke the camels back. Welcome to the post-PC era people.
In the end, it will be Apple vs asian tech companies.
For Wintel PC companies I'm not surprised because Dell pushed a race to the bottom that was unsustainable. Apple never joined that party because Jobs saw Apple as a company that offered premium products and the differing software (along w/differing hardware for most of Apple's life) allowed the company to distances itself from other personal computer hardware companies that basically sold the same product (an x86 box that ran Windows) w/only cosmetic differences between brands.
Lethal
Maybe he just liked the location.
Which is why the Apple Campus is going there.
Edit: oops but he never worked there.
Still he must have liked the location a fair bit.
I don't think HP had the cupertino campus back then - they were just in Palo Alto, no?
Wouldn't be surprised if Asus buys them. Don't see any turnaround coming until they start innovating and stop cost cutting. Sad tale to watch HP creep ever further down the drain.
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Worked with is a bit of a stretch but yes, they both worked for HP. It was really through the Homebrew computer club that their association grew. Woz went to Homestead High too but they didn't associate then as Woz is 5yrs older.
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Worked with is a bit of a stretch but yes, they both worked for HP. It was really through the Homebrew computer club that their association grew. Woz went to Homestead High too but they didn't associate then as Woz is 5yrs older.
If there bone headed new CEO does this, and the board agrees to it, I predict the end of HP as a stand alone company.
HP will be either bought out, or more likely go bankrupt doing this stupid and poorly thought out type of suicide...
It's stupid for HP, the largest seller of PC and server hardware, to gut themselves... They will be flopping on the pier and die within years.
This also shifts a huge amount of business to Dell which will probably mean that Lenovo will finally eat Dell's lunch and Dell could end up eating concrete too...
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And don't forget that HP passed on the Steve's ideas. Like totally signed off any interest in their work. At the time, HP was into calculators and high end special purpose computers and test equipment and the stuff the Steve's came up with didn't really fit into their product line.
If ASUS buys HP's hardware lines, then both will end.
Although I wonder what this means for the post Compaq buyout HP and that perhaps HP should end the Compaq brand instead of trashing their whole hardware business...
HP will be either bought out, or more likely go bankrupt doing this stupid and poorly thought out type of suicide...
It's stupid for HP, the largest seller of PC and server hardware, to gut themselves... They will be flopping on the pier and die within years.
This also shifts a huge amount of business to Dell which will probably mean that Lenovo will finally eat Dell's lunch and Dell could end up eating concrete too...
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And don't forget that HP passed on the Steve's ideas. Like totally signed off any interest in their work. At the time, HP was into calculators and high end special purpose computers and test equipment and the stuff the Steve's came up with didn't really fit into their product line.
If ASUS buys HP's hardware lines, then both will end.
Although I wonder what this means for the post Compaq buyout HP and that perhaps HP should end the Compaq brand instead of trashing their whole hardware business...