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yttrx <yttrx@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I do. Lenovo are allowed to use the IBM brand for another 5 years, and
>> then it's over. They also supply IBM with PCs.
>>
>> IBM agreed to help with marketing.
>>
>> Approx 10,000 IBM employees went to join the "joint venture" in which
>> IBM is a minority partner, a less than 20% stake, to be precise. This
>> reduces IBM's exposure to a rapidly declining market by around 80%, and
>> also, gets 10,000 employees off their books in the US.
>>
>> This is /not/ outsourcing, it's considerably more complex than that. I
>> can see why it could appear confusing, though.
>>
>
> Here's what's just happened:
You made a fool of yourself, and then you learnt something. Obviously,
you've been on the net and found out, to your total amazement, that I'm
right.
<snip acceptance that I'm right, and abuse>
Even /Microsoft/ are now admitting that the PC market is dead (see other
posting by Roy S). Presumably, at some point, you'll wake up and notice
what's been pretty clear to many of us for a long time. The PC is dead,
it's replacement is/will be devices, in the main, I think, portable
devices of one kind or another. Mobility is the future here, with the
challenge being to get the right balance between network-side processing
and device-side processing, and optimising the traffic between the
device and the network to best economic effect.
I remain unconvinced that you're the original yttrx, I think that you're
a nym shift of one of our normal trolls.
I shall not read anything else from you.
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