| ▲ | kingleopold 4 hours ago |
| yet hp exist after decades, just a terrible printer corp going long term is insane really |
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| ▲ | kylecazar 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| They're the 2nd biggest PC manufacturer in the world. Sell more computers than Dell, Apple, etc. Only beaten by Lenovo. |
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| ▲ | philipov 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | and Lenovo is itself an IBM spinoff. After the company rebranded itself to Lenovo, it merged with IBM's PC business which produced its ThinkPad line in 2005, after which it rapidly expanded abroad. In 2013, Lenovo became the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales for the first time, a position it still holds as of 2024.
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| ▲ | SahAssar 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not a spinoff. It was founded 20 years before and was the largest PC manufacturer in China 10 years before buying IBM's PC business. | | |
| ▲ | jonwinstanley 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Interesting. Did not know that. I thought someone bought the IBM laptop business and renamed it. | | |
| ▲ | phyalow 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | They did, but they also were a large existing manufacturer. | | |
| ▲ | jolt42 an hour ago | parent [-] | | I don't know what they had before but their identity seemed to be IBM's overnight (thinkpads and all). |
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| ▲ | kingleopold 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | yet they gather PC parts right ? like did they create any board or ram or any great hardware, no ? |
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| ▲ | flo123456 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| HP was never just a printer corp. ;-) |
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| ▲ | InvisibleUp 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | The fun parts of HP split off years ago into Agilent, Keysight, and HPE. Current HP is just a printer and office PC corp. | |
| ▲ | CamperBob2 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | HP is long gone. What's left is just a printer and PC company that didn't bother to change the sign on the building. It's as if I bought an old telephone exchange building and called it Bell Labs. | | |
| ▲ | JAlexoid 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | You couldn't, mostly because Bell Labs is owned by Nokia now. | | |
| ▲ | CamperBob2 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Interesting, TIL! I wonder what Nokia's market cap is... geez, still over $50B. Another surprise. | | |
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| ▲ | nateglims 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I suspect their enterprise computer business creates more revenue than printers. |
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| ▲ | zimbu668 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Printers are just a loss leader for toner. | | |
| ▲ | JAlexoid 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | If you put 90% of the electronics into the cartridge and the printer box is just a paper feeder - that's not exactly surprising. |
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