Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP

Re:Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP by pmontra on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @06:22AM (#21461483)

Did we? I was happy with my phone back then. It made calls and received SMSes. Having to use T9 was not so good but not even so bad.

Of course my phone does much more now, calling and texting being the least of it. I wouldn't go back ( * ), but I also won't go back to the cars of the 70s. This doesn't mean I hated my dad's car.

Apple invented a new phone which is not a phone as intended before 2007 and one that people liked. That's why they got so successful.

HP and Xerox are probably still good at what they used to do (I'm happy with my ZBook and LaserJet) but they are probably not where the bulk of the market is nowadays. So they seem to be fading away.

(*) Except that phones got so light and small around 2000 that they could almost fit in a closed fist and I'm missing that.

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Re:Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP by agumonkey on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:31AM (#21462912)

I share the sentiment but I cannot deny that I somehow wanted an iphone kind thing around the time it happened. We all bought phones who had one more feature, color lcd, fancy games, internal mp3 player, photos..

I somehow hate smartphones nowadays because of the "more is less" dimension but the iphone was a normal thing to happen.

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