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> It's an odd business that is huge and just trucks along without remarkable growth. This isn’t odd at all. It’s a feature common to most businesses that have
by bigfatkitten 3mo ago
> It's an odd business that is huge and just trucks along without remarkable growth.
This isn’t odd at all. It’s a feature common to most businesses that have been around 100 years or more.
- jeffbee 3mo agoWell, it's odd in that they do this sideways financial performance while also from time to time dropping a state-of-the-art microprocessor, like a real tech giant. You could also see that it's odd in that most companies from 100 years ago simply don't exist. The perfectly flat trajectory bordering on fade-out is uncommon. The median 100-year-old tech company is Sperry, not IBM.