Comment by cleeus | Hacker News Reader

Comment by cleeus | Hacker News Reader

aha, they intend to keep the ARM HQ in the UK. Well ... let's see what they say in 10 years because you know, once a company is sold, the buyer can do whatever the fuck he wants with the thing he just bought.

Do you know who owned ARM before? It certainly wasn't some nebulous cloud named "Britain". It was mostly large institutional investors in the US.

You don't buy a company the size of ARM at such enormous expense intending to ruin it.

Ruining it is never the _intention_, but it happens often enough that people are right to worry when a company gets bought out.

The timezone differences are going to be an issue. We have a couple of Japanese guys in the same team as me, and its tough going. We have a small window in the morning to align on projects and if we ever need to do face to face meetings, we are all reluctant as its a killer long haul flight where you're guaranteed three days of jet lag.

True, but Japanese companies aren't prone to ruin foreign companies they've acquired by relocating the HQ to Japan.

They do so by bringing Japan into the foreign HQ, i.e. the acquiree's top execs are replaced by the acquirer's execs.

Don't underestimate humanity's ability to ruin things. :D

See also: Cadbury's.

Fuck you, Kraft.

It's one thing to shit over the workers Kraft, but to shit over the product is another (They changed the recipes, sizes, and generally turned the best chocolate in the world into shitty American chocolate (no offense to Americans)).

The "best" chocolate for some values of "best", i.e. "the one I remember growing up in UK". Across Europe, Cadbury is widely considered barely edible. Pre-Kraft Cadbury were also instrumental in watering down EU regulations on the minimum amount of cocoa in chocolate products.

I've lived in the UK my whole life and I think you've got rose-tinted spectacles. Cadbury chocolate has always been terrible.

This may be true but it has gotten worse over recent years.

If you had traveled, your opinion would hold more water.

I've been all over the world. I still think Cadbury's chocolate is shit.

I was pointing out why your previous comment was not being taken seriously, it was not a challenge.

It's odd though - Dairy Milk Fruit and Nut still tastes great to me. Other new products they released (marshmellows covered in chocolate?) taste of nothing - they're just sweet like any Quality Street.

Milk Tray - now that is the blandest chocolate I have ever tasted. So I don't know how much they have changed things.

The rocky road chocolate (marshmallows covered in chocolate) is not made by Cadbury. Look at the small print on the back of the packet and you'll see that it is made under licence for Cadbury (Mondelez).

Mondelez is Kraft. So it's white-labeled Kraft product :)

They don't care what you say or do. They've got a nearly monopoly share on supermarket and newsagent shelves.

At least sales of Creme Eggs took a hit after their adulteration. Isn't Cadbury owned by Mendelez now?

Mendelez == Kraft

They did the same in Norway with Freia :(

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