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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by apozem on Saturday September 01, 2018 @07:39PM (#17894500)
Speaking of companies laughing at competitors they shouldn't, my father has a great story from his time at IBM.

He was in a meeting where they were talking about Amazon Web Services, which had just launched. He said an IBM executive called it "stupid" and asked, "Who would ever pay for a server with a credit card?"

This blew my mind, because now that AWS is crushing IBM's cloud offerings, the answer to his question is tons of people.

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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by notatcomputer68 on Sunday September 02, 2018 @06:09AM (#17896419)
The transaction cost of fully automatic flow and pay with credit card is unbeatable. For a big project it may not matter but for a small one it does.
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