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IBM has always been a business-to-business. Their name literally comes from International Business Machines.
I suppose the several IBM PCs I owned in the 80s and 90s were all just hallucinations. Useful hallucinations though, they taught me to use DOS and to program in BASIC.
I don't think I claimed they don't do consumer stuff but business stuff has always been their core business.
IBM wasn't interested in PCs, and they were already enshittifyjng by then.
They began that way, then they branched into personal computation when that became a thing. Then they took a machine gun to their feet in that market
It’s was too much hassle for too little profit. Their bread and butter is having regular people not remember they still exist.
A company is not necessarily limited to the activities implied by its name.
Did I say that? OP complained that IBM has become so business oriented recently, but that has always been its core business.
It's what it sounded like and I'm not the only guy who saw it that way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That just means more than one people jump to conclusions
Exactly this. The effort of selling one z Series is not one million times higher than selling a laptop, but the profit is.