[Virgil Weinstock]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Is was a bit premature, but HP was thinking about spinning off their desktop line last year.”

The guy who said that was almost immediately fired. For other reasons, yes, but the timing couldn’t possibly have been coincidental.

The new CEO immediately said, “We’ll evaluate,” which is code for “I’m sure he was on crack, but I should probably learn my secretary’s name and where the bathrooms are first,” and took a couple of weeks to say, “Yep, he was on crack. We’re a computer company. We make computers.”

Not to say that it will never happen, but “HP” may or may not have been thinking about going strictly cloud, but HP put a bullet in the head of the guy who actually said it out loud. The moral of the story is that HP is NOT thinking about it any time soon. The new boss is NOT the same as the old boss.

I guarantee that Apple will drop Mac Pros before HP drops workstations…and I’m not thinking Apple is in a hurry to drop Mac Pros…

So if you’re going to say that “HP thought about it,” you have to add, “…and then immediately double-tapped the guy behind the ear.”

[Virgil Weinstock]

[Tim Wilson] “Except isn’t that Zaius rather than Virgil? 🙂 “

You, sir, are a nerd among nerds.

I couldn’t find a decent picture of Virgil, but I really like this one of Zaius. Don’t tell anyone else. LOL

[Virgil Weinstock]

[Christopher Wright] ..quoting Tim..“The desire to actually speak to anyone for any reason is inversely proportional to iPhone ownership.”

I think Tim was making a joke about iPhones. See also the last sentence of the post. A wonderful device whose only shortcoming is the ability to make or receive phone calls.

I agree with what you said about cell phones Christopher, but it doesn’t change Tim’s points, especially about passive aggression. You aggressively send an email, and it just sits there, passively. Them not answering it is your problem, not theirs.

You may even have made things worse by “passively” not communicating, even though in your mind, you HAVE communicated.

Too bad it’s all in your mind.

Also too bad there’s no way for somebody who CAN check email on their phone, but ISNT checking email on their phone, to know that you want to reach them.

Oh wait, there IS a way to let somebody with email on their phone know that you need to reach them. Use the phone part of the phone!