IBM To Leave The Desktop?

Matey-O writes "John C. Dvorak's got an interesting article on IBM's behavior towards desktop PCs of late. In short, aside from the profitable laptop sales, their desktop sales lost the company roughly $1B in a serioulsy UP market. Showing no interest in the 20 year anniversary of the desktop, it looks like IBM wants to get out of the industry it effectively started. " Granted, the article is extreme conjecture, but it's still an interesting thought - the Thinkpad group, tho', rocks.

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bah

[grub]

We all know Apple started the desktop market. IBM just got into it once Apple's hippy founders were gazillionaires. Nothing gets a large corporations attention like money.

Dvorak

[CaptainSuperBoy]

John Dvorak and "interesting article" in the same sentence.. now there's an oxymoron for you.

It's been a long time since Dvorak could be considered a journalist. Take what he writes with a grain of salt - most of it is needlessly inflammatory, speculation. Just look at some of the absurd pieces of Linux FUD he's authored in the past.

His concept of journalism falls neatly into the 10 o'clock news scaremongering school of thought. He'd 'break the news' on Bill Gates' army of cyborg warriors if it would get his column some hits. ZDNet in general, and Dvorak (and his MS-worship pal, David Coursey) specifically cannot be trusted for decent news/commentary.

Re:Dvorak

[sid_vicious]

Guess you don't follow the research community much do you.

Prior to this crazy thing called the "World Wide Web", you had to cough up some serious tuition money if you wanted to follow the research community.

I come here now to get my scoop on new inventions, but Dvorak still keeps his ear to the ground on some stuff that the editors here either aren't privy to or just aren't interested in (article I submitted here and got rejected...)

Good riddance!

[schnogg]

I have ne'er met a Ibm desktop that I liked.