* Posts by MortyCapp

11 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Nov 2018

HP chief throws about AI fairy dust in hopes of reviving slumbering PC giant

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You have asked analysts (that is to say suppliers of estimates and consulting to HP) for their comments.

That should be interesting.

And completely self serving.

HP bets big on future of hybrid work with $3.3bn Poly buy

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Been there done that and messed it up...

Google HP HALO telepresence.

I used it at the time, it was amazing.

But HP did not manage to sell it.

They sold the business to Polycom, which they are now buying?

Now spending $3.3billions on someone else's hardware, integrating it with the PC business unit.

Where is the software piece?

Compaq, Palm, EDS, Autonomy, Samsung printers...

HP does not know how to integrate and leverage its acquisitions.

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They used to have HALO, which was amazing at the time.

As usual, HP managed to waste it and sold it.

France says Google Analytics breaches GDPR when it sends data to US

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GDPR Rules

Nothing surprising here, if you know your GDPR.

The paperless office is back again! (But only because print hardware supplies are jammed)

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no insights on demand in the IDC stats

IDC records and estimates shipments (out of factory). It does not provide insights on demand.

This means that we do not know if there is an "unsatisfied demand", or how large that would be.

Vendors would know what they have on back orders though.

The bigger question is, if IDC is right and thinks the supply chain issues will last well into 2022, by then the DX projects and Hybrid workplace would also have impacted what is future demand.

-20% shipments is terrible compared to the already bad 2020.

We can expect further rounds of layoffs and price increases.

As well as serious existential headaches for the channel.

HP CEO talks up HP-ink-only print hardware and higher upfront costs for machines that use other cartridges

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HP+ is illegal anyway?

Considering that HP+ sends data to HP servers in the US while Privacy Shield and Safe Harbour have been rescinded, it seems to me that some product manager in Boise with poor advice from legal in Palo Alto forgot about Europe and is hoping that contractual agreements will suffice.

Good luck with that.

Thought you'd go online to buy better laptop for home working? Too bad, UK. So did everyone. Laptops, monitors and WLANs fly off shelves

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Anesthesia as a compulsory extra add on.

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Re: Delays

The latest Win10 works well on all my old laptops, HP 2470P, 745 G2 and G4, thinkpad X1, t61, R61i...

Microsoft apps and Office 365 make collaborating from home almost painless out of the box.

It was a lit CeBIT see, got teeny weeny, world's biggest tech show yearly party... closed its German fest's doors yesterday

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Re: Not quite

Comdex?

Even CES had to switch from 2x a year to 1x a year.

Even in the UK some local trade shows are suffering massively, such as IPEX.

On the other hands MWC seems to be doing ok, as well as vendor owned shows (Apple, Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Discover...).

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33 years ago....

1985: The Power of Love - Jennifer Rush

1986: Don't leave me this way - The Communards

Source: http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1986.shtml

HP's Neon Dion says if anything goes wrong, it's totally Intel's fault: CPU shortage may hit PC maker's financials

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Re: Printers

HP Inc has printers, PCs and 3D Printing.