Ich: I want some freshly ground coffee. Hey, Tchibo, do you offer this?
Tchibo: Of course! That’s my primary business.
Ich: By the way, Tchibo, do you know someone who sells raincoats and underwear, but basically no other clothes?
Tchibo: Funny that you ask…
Samsung is pretty cool like that. Need a TV? Samsung does it. Need a washer dryer set? Samsung. Need artillery? Believe it or not straight to Samsung.
pharmaceutical products? samsung again (though as CMOs not as name brands as far as I know)
Together we can cancel Reddit
What’s always been funny to me is that Yamaha also seems to have the cheapest and some of the most expensive stuff too. Look at (piano) keyboards for example.
They play all sides so they always come out on top
Ich: I want to get into cooking. What is some very basic recipe book for beginners?
Dr. Oetker: What about mine: Dr. Oetkers Schulkochbuch?
Ich: But I’m actually too lazy to cook. I just gonna buy some frozen pizza.
Dr. Oetker: Here you go.
And they are quite elite on both
I learned this fact from Vocaloid (yep the one with Hatsune Miku), which is also developed by Yamaha. They had a mechanical parts department during WW2, and it survived by switching to making motorcycles after the war.
Mitsubishi: Cars, Air Conditioners, Chemicals, …Food Industry(?), …Pens & Pencils(!?!?!?)
Me: I’d like to buy a smartphone
Samsung: ok
Me: I also need an apartment in Korea
Samsung: ok
Or medical treatment in a hospital. Or signing up for military service and using one of their vehicles.
Or wet wipes for dogs, probably
Me : I’ll also need a tank and a giant crane for… unspecified reasons.
Samsung: ok
Me: also diapers, unrelated
Samsung: here you go
Me: can I also get some appliances for that apartment?
Samsung: ok
Me: and you know I’ll probably also need a testing kit for these chemicals that I purchased
Samsung: done
Me: I need assisted living facilities after a small chemical accident in the home
Samsung: no problem
Me: oh, and some sugar
Samsung: fine, there you go
For real though, anyone know how that came to be?
Branching- Pepsi made phones, Nintendo had love hotels and taxi services, Chinese companies make many stuff etc
Nintendo? Love Hotels? I think I missed a few chapters here.
It’s been a bit so I may botch some of the details, but back when they were just a playing card company, the youngish CEO went to the US and toured the offices of whoever the biggest playing card manufacturer was at that time. He noticed their offices weren’t that impressive and thought, “If we remain as a playing card company, this is our ceiling.” So he started branching out into a ton of weird unrelated businesses and video games happened to stick.
So basically thank Hoyle or whoever for having a shitty headquarters or we wouldn’t have Tears of the Kingdom.
Huge companies used to make a lot of stuff back in the golden age of capitalism. General electric was a big chemicals and plastics company for instance. It was just normal.
Nowadays, those mega-corporations make more money acting as a bank than they do selling stuff. They’ve just kept some product lines rolling because they’re profitable and safe.
You couldn’t just start a motorcycle company and be competitive against Yamaha. The specific expertise they have took decades to build, so why waste it by closing down those weird branches when they’re still making money.
I need a good clothes washer.
Maytag: we can do that!
Nice. Where can I get some blue cheese?
Maytag: Maytag Farms
Now I know what my wayward socks do…
I would like to buy some air conditioning
Hitachi: OK
And some science equipment, a crane and some train tracks
Hitachi: Done
Also I want to pleasure myself
Hitachi: I gotcha fam
Magic wand moment 😂.
I would like to buy a business copier/printer/scanner.
Brother: Got you covered.
Any idea where I can get a good sewing machine?
Brother: Funny you should ask!
“And now I give you… The Moonlight Sonata.”
Revs dirt bike engine
is this a phone screenshot of a tik-tok screenshot of a tweet ?
lemme post this on instagram, send it via whatsapp, upload it to imgur and have it recompressed by youtube real quick!
To convert that to open services: Let me just post this on Pixelfed, send it via Telegram/Signal, upload it to (hmm, can someone help me here) and have it recompressed by Odysee/Peertube!
Help is here: upload it to Picsur
That’s a weird way to spell matrix
Which one?
Matrix is a federated messaging app, while telegram and signal make it difficult to host your own servers. You can read their docs at matrix.org or try the service at element.io
Thanks for letting me know about that!
Glad I could help :) You should also see a space in your lemmy account settings to put a matrix ID on your profile, if you want people to have a more secure contact option than lemmy DMs which can be read by the instance admins.
MORE JPEG!
They also apparently make a digital saxophone and compound bow (as in archery) grips.
