J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

The Samsung printer division was bought by HP.
As to why, we can only guess.

Sounds like you have a guess - care to share?

When products overlap, I can't help but feel it
is simple crushing of competition so prices can rise.

We'll just have to wait and see.

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https://www.anandtech.com/show/10677...inter-business

"Nowadays printers are no longer supplied with the vast majority
of PCs, and the total available market (TAM) of hardcopy peripherals
is shrinking."

"HP intends to pay Samsung $1.05 billion for the latter’s printer
business and acquire a portfolio of intellectual property
that includes 6,500 printing patents." === Ding Ding Ding

So that's a value element. And that's not to use to crush competition
or collect a piddling royalty stream. That's a generic patent
portfolio to wave around in other patent disputes. A chess piece.

Paul