The data about patent filing does not support your claim about innovation. IBM literally optimizes for the patent filing metric (and others generally do not),

The data about patent filing does not support your claim about innovation. IBM literally optimizes for the patent filing metric (and others generally do not), and that metric is not at all correlated to "innovation". Most people would also likely argue that data would not support your claim about robustness either. The graph of IBM's revenue over the past few decades does not tell a happy story: https://www.statista.com/statistics/265003/ibms-revenue-since-1999/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/265003/ibms-revenue-sinc... It doesn't get better if you go further back. IBM has the same revenue now that it did in 1996. Robust usually means strong and vigorous. I think it would be a challenge to find someone who believes the past decade at IBM has been that, particularly the Rometty era (IE 22 consecutive quarters of revenue decline)