Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Why the UK's IBM Failed" video.

  1. It's a typical British story, repeated in the car industry, the aircraft industry, TV manufacturing, and the semiconductor industry. First a number of lame duck firms are having trouble competing with the Americans and the Japanese. Left alone, one of them would rise to the top and either go broke or figure out how to succeed, probably in a more specialised market that IBM doesn't bother too much with, as did America's Hewlett Packard, DEC, and Sun Microsystems. But before they have a chance to do that, the government steps in, and meddles. They ignore the one firm who has the sense to get access to American know-how. That guarantees the end of the industry, while wasting a great deal of taxpayer's money as well.
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