[ltp] Re: Bad news for us ...

[Andrew Barr]

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On Saturday 03 June 2006 18:17, Dominik Riebeling wrote:
> Btw: I was fearing Thinkpads will get worse when Lenovo bought it, and
> from what I can see my fear came true -- I really think Lenovo hasn't
> understood the market IBM was selling their Thinkpads to. 

What am I missing? I've not seen anything yet to indicate that this was the 
case. Can you be specific?

> Or maybe 
> they didn't want to continue to supply that market (which would be a
> pretty strange decision to me). 

Well, IBM didn't want to supply that market either, which is the reason they 
sold their personal computing division in the first place. I think both IBM 
and Lenovo are trying to run a mass-market sized business (with the hope for 
mass-market profit margins) for a much smaller, specialty market--perhaps if 
they'd scale down the Thinkpad business there wouldn't be so much pressure to 
cheapen the product.

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