He then issued a simple edict: Each unit had to create "demonstrably superior products" that could achieve "above-market growth rates" "This is not a strategy story, " says the buttoned-down Davis in his London office.
Calculators were the original handheld computers, but unlike the whole PDA fad, they've had amazing staying power through their 40-year history -- to this day, buttoned-up dudes crunching numbers at wooden desks have HP 12Cs next to them not for the kitschy retro street cred, but because they're functional, familiar, and do exactly what they're expected to do.