{"id":1945,"date":"2011-08-19T15:55:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T15:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2011-08-19T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T15:55:22","slug":"hp-to-stop-making-pcs-is-this-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":"HP To Stop Making PCs? Is This Wise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the site where I usually get my news, there are two articles today &#8230; one reporting on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/08\/18\/hp_kills_webos_tablets_and_phones\/\">HP supposedly spinning off the PC business<\/a>, and another reporting on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/08\/18\/lenovo_first_quarter_numbers\/\">Lenovo&#8217;s bosses patting themselves on their back for buying IBM&#8217;s PC business<\/a> a few years ago. The interesting thing about these two stories is that HP may be making the same mistake that IBM has previously made.<\/p>\n<p>It may not appear at first glance to be a mistake &#8211; IBM and now perhaps HP are ditching a very low margin business because their core area of profitability is in business software and services with much higher margins. But is it a sensible decision ?<\/p>\n<p>One of the advantages of selling pieces of tin that ordinary people have a chance of encountering when they are looking for a new desktop PC or laptop, is that your name is &#8220;out there&#8221;. Ordinary people will know your name, and know what business you are in &#8211; just the kind of publicity that an obscure company selling business software would love &#8211; how many people in the street know who Oracle are ? Or Autonomy ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the site where I usually get my news, there are two articles today &#8230; one reporting on HP supposedly spinning off the PC business, and another reporting on Lenovo&#8217;s bosses patting themselves on their back for buying IBM&#8217;s PC business a few years ago. The interesting thing about these two stories is that <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=1945' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-vn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}