With HP killing off customers left and right due to inferior office and consumer products they need to find a revenue source. Since switching to 90 day warranted disposable appliances the company has changed from selling durable goods to selling trash for cash. It's easy to see a dead end company spiraling out of control. You can be certain that HP will destroy the HyperX product line like every other acquisition they have previously made. Hewlett and Packard must be rolling over in their graves at the cluster HP became.
Came here to say just that. They have the touch of death for every brand they acquire. Anyone working at HyperX should be abandoning ship as fast as possible. What HP did to Palm and consumers was disgusting, they manage to make printers even more hateful than anyone else... My parents bought one of their printers and then its me that has to deal with it. It has *games* on it. In order to access any of the printer functions you have to go through the games section.
The printer is terrible but they had R&D to spend on putting a games console onto the printer. It's not as if you can even use it to pass the time whilst it is printing and it's just gonna end up with the kids messing with the wretched thing.
Honestly,the company is run by cockwombles of the highest order.
It's also worth mentioning HP's most famously destructive buyout: Palm. Even worse than Compaq, because at least they kept, to this day, some Compaq DNA. But they totally destroyed Palm because in 2011 "smartphones weren't the future."
The last decent consumer notebook they made was in my opinion the Folio 13 and that was Sandy\Ivybridge. The Elitebook and some of the Ryzen Probooks are the only machines to consider anymore, and at their retail prices you are better off with Dell (speaking of turnarounds) Latitudes. HP desktops have been shit for years and as a previous HP partner in IT, the downward spiral the last decade has been depressing it's like corporations - at least in the USA - bailed on Lenovo after Superfish only to go right back and at the prices Lenovo sells at who can blame them.
I've been migrating clients to Dell for the last few years and haven't regretted it. Ethically it was challenging after the BS they pulled with Intel over AMD two decades ago but it is what it is.
If they announced the acquisition in February 2022, isn't it a little early to make a report of it? You seem very confident about it too, as if you could know about the future.
Funny that original article was originally written expected to complete in Q2 2013. The different is it was corrected shortly after that while this one still refer to the future 😅
HP seems to swallow companies whole and spit out feeble remains. HP has acquired 3-4 companies nearly every year from 1989 to 2010.
In the consumer sphere, HP acquired Compaq ($25 billion), Snapfish ($300 million), Voodoo PC (unknown), Palm ($1.2 billion), and now HyperX ($425 million).
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Techie2 - Wednesday, June 2, 2021 - link
With HP killing off customers left and right due to inferior office and consumer products they need to find a revenue source. Since switching to 90 day warranted disposable appliances the company has changed from selling durable goods to selling trash for cash. It's easy to see a dead end company spiraling out of control. You can be certain that HP will destroy the HyperX product line like every other acquisition they have previously made. Hewlett and Packard must be rolling over in their graves at the cluster HP became.Makaveli - Wednesday, June 2, 2021 - link
Facts!!!philehidiot - Thursday, June 3, 2021 - link
Came here to say just that. They have the touch of death for every brand they acquire. Anyone working at HyperX should be abandoning ship as fast as possible. What HP did to Palm and consumers was disgusting, they manage to make printers even more hateful than anyone else... My parents bought one of their printers and then its me that has to deal with it. It has *games* on it. In order to access any of the printer functions you have to go through the games section.The printer is terrible but they had R&D to spend on putting a games console onto the printer. It's not as if you can even use it to pass the time whilst it is printing and it's just gonna end up with the kids messing with the wretched thing.
Honestly,the company is run by cockwombles of the highest order.
Samus - Friday, June 4, 2021 - link
It's also worth mentioning HP's most famously destructive buyout: Palm. Even worse than Compaq, because at least they kept, to this day, some Compaq DNA. But they totally destroyed Palm because in 2011 "smartphones weren't the future."Samus - Friday, June 4, 2021 - link
The last decent consumer notebook they made was in my opinion the Folio 13 and that was Sandy\Ivybridge. The Elitebook and some of the Ryzen Probooks are the only machines to consider anymore, and at their retail prices you are better off with Dell (speaking of turnarounds) Latitudes. HP desktops have been shit for years and as a previous HP partner in IT, the downward spiral the last decade has been depressing it's like corporations - at least in the USA - bailed on Lenovo after Superfish only to go right back and at the prices Lenovo sells at who can blame them.I've been migrating clients to Dell for the last few years and haven't regretted it. Ethically it was challenging after the BS they pulled with Intel over AMD two decades ago but it is what it is.
Rudde - Thursday, June 3, 2021 - link
If they announced the acquisition in February 2022, isn't it a little early to make a report of it? You seem very confident about it too, as if you could know about the future.philehidiot - Thursday, June 3, 2021 - link
They also have a formula for transparent aluminium.0iron - Friday, June 4, 2021 - link
Funny that original article was originally written expected to complete in Q2 2013. The different is it was corrected shortly after that while this one still refer to the future 😅haplo602 - Thursday, June 3, 2021 - link
RIP HyperX .... I'll have to find a new brand of headset ....It's not that the quality of product would suffer much, but HP support is non-existent ...
ikjadoon - Thursday, June 3, 2021 - link
HP seems to swallow companies whole and spit out feeble remains. HP has acquired 3-4 companies nearly every year from 1989 to 2010.In the consumer sphere, HP acquired Compaq ($25 billion), Snapfish ($300 million), Voodoo PC (unknown), Palm ($1.2 billion), and now HyperX ($425 million).
ikjadoon - Thursday, June 3, 2021 - link
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions...