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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
No one is blaming them for failing to beat Apple. Not that I know anyway. All the objections I have read so far are about them failing in areas that were under their control. Public relations. Customer relations. Technical support. Ecosystem support. Bug fixing. Communication.

I have just come back from yet another company meeting. One slide showed an equasion:

product = hardware x software x support

Why multiplication and not addition? Because if any component is zero, the whole thing is zero. This seems obvious but perhaps not to everyone.
I totally agree. My point is, even if they perfected "product = hardware x software x support", they still wouldn't be able to make it. Longer and more productive, perhaps, but what is happening now was inevitable.