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Completely agree. But they took this decision because they saw that the superior quality of their product(which having owned older Thinkpads I can say it's tru
by Kurtz79 12y ago
Completely agree.
But they took this decision because they saw that the superior quality of their product(which having owned older Thinkpads I can say it's true) wasn't profitable enough when competing with lower cost "good enough" alternatives.
- exelius 12y agoIBM's core strategy is one of technological differentiation through R&D; not price leadership. It's absolutely part of that strategy to exit commoditizing markets (which is why they got out of x86 servers as well) where product differentiation is difficult.