On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 01:01 PM, Andrew wrote:
Then they got a very good deal, as the ThinkPad brand has SERIOUS equity.
Hopefully, they maintain the same quality level (shouldn't be hard as they are already
made in China) and keep the same philosophy. I know they also got the IBM
designers and engineers, so with any luck, nothing will change.
Then neither will the profitability. IBM has been losing GOBS of money doing things this way.
This is why one of the first things Steve Jobs did when he came back to Apple was reduce the model line to 4. The complexity's crept up, and now the model line is 5 again, but it's a rational 5. Well, call it 5.5 with the eMac, but I expect the eMac is on it's way out.
I remember shopping for a laptop for out College Dean a few years back trying to sort out IBM's offerings. Whatta mess. (he's now supposed to get his 12" Powerbook any day now...)
Dell and Gateway are much the same: an assortment of boxes all slightly different.
NO one, it seems truly learned the Performa Lesson except Apple.
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