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Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:21 am to ell_13
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IBM could have been bigger than Microsoft and Google had they positioned themselves better.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:22 am to Broke
Kodak
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:23 am to Placebeaux
He just doesn't like att because they make him have the next plan and he thinks the company is screwing him over
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:24 am to Fat and Happy
ATT and YP are the worse companies in the world.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:25 am to Broke
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A close 2nd has to be AT&T
This makes no sense whatsoever
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:27 am to Broke
Xerox - they developed the mouse and the graphical user interface. Basically, they could have been Apple AND Microsoft rolled into one and completely dominated the computer revolution, but they didn't realize/couldn't capitalize on what they had and now they're a copy machine company in an increasingly paperless world.
AOL - everyone used them to get online in the dial-up era and they either didn't foresee broadband or didn't do anything to re-position themselves or use their money to develop new technology and now they're merged with Time Warner which is viewed as one of the worst most worthless acquisitions ever because they contribute nothing to the modern world.
Research In Motion (Blackberry) - had the smartphone market on LOCKDOWN and a decade later they barley exist
AOL - everyone used them to get online in the dial-up era and they either didn't foresee broadband or didn't do anything to re-position themselves or use their money to develop new technology and now they're merged with Time Warner which is viewed as one of the worst most worthless acquisitions ever because they contribute nothing to the modern world.
Research In Motion (Blackberry) - had the smartphone market on LOCKDOWN and a decade later they barley exist
This post was edited on 1/21/16 at 9:29 am
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:28 am to Broke
Blockbuster.
They had a chance to purchase Netflix for practically nothing somewhere around 25-50 million. Now there is no blockbuster and only Netflix.
They had a chance to purchase Netflix for practically nothing somewhere around 25-50 million. Now there is no blockbuster and only Netflix.
This post was edited on 1/21/16 at 9:30 am
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:28 am to Fat and Happy
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He just doesn't like att because they make him have the next plan and he thinks the company is screwing him over
AT&T was bought out by SBC, one of it's RBOC's in 2005. Being bought out by one of your divestitures could imply poor management/strategic planning leading up to the buyout.
Most of what you know about AT&T today is because of the changes brought forth by SBC.
This post was edited on 1/21/16 at 9:33 am
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:30 am to gatorguru
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as long as you don't have a snapchat, instagram, or watch a ton of videos on your phone it gets the job done.
Either you are comfy to where your primary job is to hold secure phone conversations or you spend unnecessary time and effort doing what your blackberry can't.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:30 am to Placebeaux
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Kodak
Had the technology for digital cameras in the 1970s but didn't push it because it would kill film and film developing.
Definitely top five dumb corporate decisions ever.
IBM is another good one. Was offered Windows and decided that OS/2 was better.
AOL had the world by the balls and balked on broadband.
Blockbuster could have owned Netflix for pennies. They decided to create a competitor and were destroyed.
This post was edited on 1/21/16 at 9:32 am
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:31 am to Broke
basically any company that doesn't innovate or capitalize on its own innovations. 
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:32 am to The Egg
New coke
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:32 am to cokebottleag
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Apple without Jobs
except the stock price has doubled since he died, every new iPhone model has continued to outsell the previous model, Mac sales are still rising YoY, the watch has added billions of dollars of revenue per year, they have become the world leading mobile cpu designers, services has gone from a break even business to a multi-billion dollar a year business, and they just open sourced a new language that is pretty much universally praised.
This post was edited on 1/21/16 at 9:41 am
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:32 am to runforrestrun
Monkey wards
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:34 am to 1234567k
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New coke
Definitely a bad decision, but the company has done well.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:34 am to anc
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Blockbuster could have owned Netflix for pennies. They decided to create a competitor and were destroyed.
Blockbuster got conned into a deal with Enron. Enron made them believe that they had the infrastructure in place to deliver streaming video on demand over the internet. Not only did Enron not have the capacity, they DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A BROADBAND NETWORK.
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:35 am to Tiger Ryno
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Monkey wards
Haven't heard that in decades.Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:39 am to Placebeaux
Sprint is waaaay worse. Left them almost 15 years ago and never looked back, just horrible everything
Posted on 1/21/16 at 9:43 am to gatorguru
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I still have a blackberry...
I do too.
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as long as you don't have a snapchat, instagram, or watch a ton of videos on your phone it gets the job done.
Not really. It still has its limitations.
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