Thread: Maybe the unpleasant truth is that MeeGo really was too late and/or not good enough?
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alcalde is offline alcalde
2011-02-14 , 00:38
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Ask IBM how that ended up for them.
Rather well, actually, all told. It was the reverse engineering and other loss of control that allowed other manufacturers to make PC clones and undercut IBM. OS/2's another story, but that's not what caused IBM to exit the market. IBM PC-compatible computers running a Microsoft operating system still rule the business and home computer markets. Lenovo bought IBM's laptop computer business and it's still a respected business laptop brand.

I wish the startup I owned 10% of ended up like IBM. 10% of nothing = nothing.
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