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This is wierd, ZF primarily builds gearboxes and car parts. What can they do with a keyboard company?
by bad_alloc 10y ago
This is wierd, ZF primarily builds gearboxes and car parts. What can they do with a keyboard company?
- cloudsloth 10y agoSell keyboards I expect. They presumably have engineering and marketing staff so they should do great.
- AdamJacobMuller 10y agoThey actually seem like pretty good fits. Gear boxes and lots of car parts is basically precision manufacturing. I'm sure there's a lot of overlap in engineering and probably lots of knowledge that can go in both directions. Not sure why there is so much doom and gloom in this thread.
- notatoad 10y agoCherry is hardly a keyboard company, they make industrial switches, sensors, and control systems. mechanical keyboard switches are just one product.
- mbreese 10y agoIt reads to me that ZF is absorbing the industrial side of Cherry and spun out the keyboard/key switch side to a private equity firm (GENUI). If you like Cherry switches in keyboards, this should probably be seen as a good thing.
- adrianratnapala 10y agoThey also make lots of terrible, bog-standard, 20 EUR rubber-dome keyboards too -- but maybe those are not seen outside of Germany.
- hexane360 10y agoI mean, one of the largest manufacture of generic Cherry switches is Kailh, who manufactures thousands of automotive limit and button switches.