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Re:Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement (2018) by noir_lord on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:16PM (#18857870)
Indeed, Microsoft already had the monopoly on desktop PC's when Linux took off so they could continue to hold it.

Trying to compete in a new market against free was a much harder prospect (and they where not the only one, I had a Blackberry Playbook, it was for it's time an excellent device and the OS was intuitive and solid...it got murdered in the market).

In fact unless you invent the category (iphone) you would be hard pressed to own it via the OS anymore.

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Re:Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement (2018) by zozbot123 on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:14PM (#18858553)
Ultimately, it's commodities all the way down anyway. The only real "moat" that Apple's OS, MS's Windows desktop, Google services, etc. have is first-mover advantage, and that's not going to last very long.
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