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The product failed to live up to the marketing. But the purpose of the marketing wasn't to sell Watson "products and services" it's purpose (imho) was to captur
by dougSF70 4y ago
The product failed to live up to the marketing. But the purpose of the marketing wasn't to sell Watson "products and services" it's purpose (imho) was to capture more of the type of work that IBM excels at (hardware, services and consulting). The same is true of most corporates "going full throttle" after LLMs - such as ChatGPT and Microsoft - the objective isn't to sell the new-new-thing, the objective is to sell more of the tried-and-trusted old thing with the gloss of the new-new-thing.
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- fijiaarone 4y agoI ordered a new copy of Microsoft Office and signed up for LinkedIn Sales Navigator after trying ChatGPT. (Zune was out of stock).
- dougSF70 4y agoI am guessing you are the CEO of a manufacturing company based in Wichita, Kansas that needs to migrate its on-prem Pentium III powered server to a cloud solution?
- tristor 4y ago> was to capture more of the type of work that IBM excels at (hardware, services and consulting) Anyone who has ever worked on a project IBM touched first, at least since about 1990, would beg to differ. It’s hard to define what IBM excels at without being overly on the nose, but it’s certainly not /providing/ consulting services.
- BeefWellington 4y agoAcquiring and slowly (or not so slowly) destroying companies in markets they want in their portfolio?
- dougSF70 4y agoLike beauty, excelling is in the eye of the beholder. Someone is paying them fees, so they must deliver some value to some firms.