Nickname: Thor

Review: Oh, I just saw that the author of this article, Peter Burrows, was one of the reporters whose phone records were spied upon by HP via "pre-texting." What irony!

Date reviewed: Sep 9, 2006 1:37 AM

Nickname: Thor

Review: Yeah, H-P's "mojo" is getting uglier everyday. It was a nice try at creating a story, though.

Date reviewed: Sep 7, 2006 9:25 PM

Nickname: willmark

Review: Yep, truly Boy-Scouts... http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060907/hewlett_packard_directors.html?.v=6

Date reviewed: Sep 7, 2006 7:22 PM

Nickname: eji

Review: Yep, who's got the mojo now? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/computers/0,71727-0.html Will you be having crow for lunch or dinner?

Date reviewed: Sep 6, 2006 6:45 AM

Nickname: Christian

Review: I rarely provide feedback to articles because I think BW's readers are usually good at covering key points, but several have gone missing here. 1. Apple's issues are internal, not competitive. This is usually the case when a company is so far out in front that it's left to fix its own problems. Switching costs are high when you want to ditch them, so I don't see them suffering from substitution as much as the more commoditized products of HP, Sony, etc. 2. HP is still a boring company with mostly commoditized hardware - aside from a nice laptop ad campaign, I am not sold on why I should do anymore than cheer on their social agenda from arms' length. 3. Considering my iPods keep lasting about a day past their warranties, I think the real issue coming ahead for Apple will be the costly expense of negotiating warranties and repairs. They're creating a market unto itself of repair shops for iPods with expired warranties.

Date reviewed: Sep 4, 2006 5:29 PM

Nickname: Jatin

Review: Hey Casey, if you think that Indians speak shoddily, you are highly mistaken, madam. This is no racism feud happening right here. So, think twice before you blurt out something. This sounds real flapdoodle from your end. The article needs to be reviewed, not share you personal experiences, may be, you should have let the call to be elevated to some experienced technician instead of forming your own notions. I wonder why people cannot take things easy and get their problems solved vis-a-vis' slinging in the mud.

Date reviewed: Sep 2, 2006 8:10 AM

Nickname: rahrens

Review: Sorry, Funky, but the claims on the "sweatshop" stories weren't proven to be false. They weren't exactly proven true as claimed either, but there was some fire under the smoke. Not what the Apple detractors had hoped, but there was some misconduct there, for sure.

Date reviewed: Sep 1, 2006 4:06 PM

Nickname: macnews

Review: At first I thought this article might just be bashing Apple and ignoring some of the same issues happening to other tech companies. Reading the entire article, however, I think the author did a good job pointing out some flaws with a recent high-flying Apple, comparing it to recent positives from former struggling HP and rounding it up in a fair manner. He compares both companies and points out it won't take much for Apple to put the recent dark spots behind them, yet don't discount HP. I think both Apple and HP have come a long way since the late 90s.

Date reviewed: Aug 31, 2006 4:45 PM

Nickname: brian

Review: It's certainly true that HP has "momentum" working for it at this moment. Lots of good things are happening in their advertising, financials and organization. Now, if they can combine this with with some real product innovation, they could not only skyrocket their own success, but that of our economy as well, as done back in the 90s. For all of us, I hope they do!

Date reviewed: Aug 31, 2006 1:22 PM

Nickname: Casey

Review: I think the only thing that needs to be said is that HP's tech support is awful. If they hadn't outsourced all of their support operations to India, where the operators can speak English but cannot speak it beyond the basic crap they need to know to do the job, maybe I would recommend an HP computer to someone. If I can't get some person in India to solve the problems with my two broken HP printers then how are they going to solve anything in flawed Windows XP? Sure, their hippy environmental movement in the tech circle deserves applause, but who cares if they can't produce products that function past their warranty dates and can't support the ones that haven't.

Date reviewed: Aug 31, 2006 12:42 AM