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Yeah but they don't do anything anymore. They create nothing, they innovate nothing, they build nothing. They're a "service company" now. It's not at all a shock that they're failing to anyone but them themselves. IBM should never have green lit that brainless brain drain shift of focus.
That's entirely untrue. IBM does mega projects and research for things the average consumer wouldn't know or care about. Their customer base is industries, not people.
An IBM Power9 supercomputer built in 2018 is #7 on the top500.org supercomputer list. That's not nothing.
Dunno if they're going anywhere now though or if that was their last hurrah.
they don't advertize it because they don't think its sexy or whatever but their mainframe business is still going strong if only because they're the last player left in the market
Having worked for a couple chip design shops, and now at ibm... ibm is the one of a few companies pushing the envelope in chip design. You just don't need what they make, so you've never heard of it.
Last I read IBM was one of the big companies pursuing R&D in quantum computers and such plus they have some software stuff like crimestat and the weather channel under their umbrella.
As a IBM developer - ouch man, that hurts. I guess I'll just go back my job doing... nothing (actually sounds like a sweet job)
They also do quite a bit of engineering r&d stuff.
They just sell the licenses for their solutions and research now rather than directly making products from it.
They do things like ruin CentOS and buy up and screw up smaller data center companies.
You just have no idea what they do, clearly. That doesn't mean they don't do anything.
IBM is still just as active, just not in the consumer markets anymore. They're big into industry research and more specialized computing these days.
You really, really should inform yourself before you make statements about things you know jack shit about.