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2010-09-21 , 21:17
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#63
Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
This article is ridiculous. To say that a single-OS/multi-device strategy doesn't work from a profitability standpoint is to ignore the last two decades of Windows computers, and the respective companies producing them that have come to dominate the industry.
Windows computers are actually a very bad example as they confirm the original point - the only permanently dominant company was Microsoft, the hardware vendors rose and fell, came and went. Very few of those who were in the original PC business are still with us (HP the only notable exception that comes to mind). IBM, Amstrad, Compaq, Epson, Olivetti, WYSE, Zenith, just to name a few big players that no longer do PCs (or exist at all)... All of them huge at the time, but didn't survive. At best every major manufacturer had rough patches in the cutthroat arena of commoditized PC hardware.
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