HP reduces drastically employees

[Steve Simpkin]

(10-05-2019 09:10 PM)Gene222 Wrote:  It's also like Kodak. Kodak's R&D developed one of the first digital cameras. But Kodak's top management believed this technology would interfere with the company's profits in selling film, so they suppressed it. Kodak stuck with the film business all the way to bankruptcy.

"One of Steve Job's business rules was to "never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him."
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs