Neither do I.
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Great quote from another thread:
Won't BK go down in history as the person who raised costs (conflict free materials), reduced employee productivity (TWWW), threw out experienced people with no chance to brain dump before they left (ACT), lied to employees (saying that stock level was used in the past for layoffs during the BUM - it wasn't), overpaid for Qualcomm's unwanted manager (Murthy), promoted then killed a mobile computing push (tablets/phones/Broxton/Sofia), lost tons of money during the mobile computing push (contra-revenue), sunk billions into a fab to immediately idle it (F32), oversaw the end of Moore's Law (Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake) while rearranging the chairs on the deck of the ship instead of showing a clear top-down focus on execution like Grove did (all gender restrooms, reality TV show, drones, BMX shows, etc.)?
And of course, diversity. Without rehashing the obvious long-term damage that any favoritism does, I'll simply remind everyone that BK ended our sponsorship of the Science Talent Search because it wasn't diverse enough. A decision that Barrett and the industry thought ridiculous as it's obvious that we should be sponsoring the top STEM talent. I guess BK believes more in quotas than results.
I do remember the 40 million tablets
This is what happens to a company that has lost its founders' mooring and culture.
Yeah after all the jokes they forgot to execute the thing that pays the bills Moore's Law and 10nm is late and we now have Tick Tock watch BK lose Moore on his watch
Don't forget that chase they all sent us on to win tablets at all costs--including paying contra money to get it done. Do you know anyone but a Comcast service person or a toddler using a tablet for anything?
There were minerals. Then there was drones. Then there was spider dresses. Then there were butterfly dresses. Then there were BMX bikes flying overhead. Then there were Xgames and Gamergate. Then Diversity. Somewhere in there, there were Girls. Then there were travesties like the Intel Bong intertwined with Beethoven. I lost count after awhile. All distractions from the fact that nothing substantive was coming out of the company.
Hottest new thing and BK is like a fly on $hit, what ever is hot, not a leader just a desperate dumb a$$ grasping at trends, LOL
I do for 1 quarter and then URM push happened