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Comment Re:Symptomatic of US decline (Score 3, Informative) 214

"they're simply not investing in emergent technologies"

That's simply not true:

https://ford.simemotors.my/abo... "$22 billion in electrification through 2025 "
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/f... "Ford is investing $5 billion to change the way it makes electric vehicles"
https://www.fromtheroad.ford.c...
By 2030, Ford expects approximately 50% of its global volume will be hybrids, extended-range EVs and fully electric vehicles, up from 17% in 2025.

What is true is Ford's products are not good enough. Globalism is a cold mistress and Ford may be its next victim.

Comment "Cable" a Failure to Innovate (Score 2) 108

The invisible hand of the market in action. No reason cable companies could not have upgraded to fiber networks and/or had IPTV plus screaming fast internet. If cable has reasonable prices, decent equipment and invented in their future. It might have been a different outcome. Oh well, c'est la vie... ...

Comment Re:I can't remember (Score 1) 52

They still sell mainframes to large banks and other dinosaur financial institutions that haven't figured out how to migrate their operations to modern metal. Google IBM Z series mainframes. And they monetized open source software by buying redhat. IBM would probably be out of business decades ago if its wasn't for mainframes and redhat.

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This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks.

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