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Re:The 7 Powers Known to Tesla, Pixar, Netflix, Apple, and T... by aidenn0 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @07:37PM (#27010962)
This is so much garbage:

1. Netflix didn't out-compete Blockbuster, Blockbuster imploded due to gross mismanagement.

2. Apple didn't make something that BlackBerry or Nokia didn't want to make, they made something that they couldn't make, because no network was going to allow it on their network. Apple got a deal with AT&T that completely blindsided their competition because they just weren't allowed to put such a device on any major networks.

I don't know much about the other examples they give, but if you're batting 0 on the ones I know, you've completely lost ethos with me.

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Re:The 7 Powers Known to Tesla, Pixar, Netflix, Apple, and T... by rsynnott on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:08PM (#27011139)
> they made something that they couldn't make, because no network was going to allow it on their network.

I think that’s probably true in the US, but less so in Europe, then Nokia’s main market. In the EU it wouldn’t have been up to the networks at all; bring your own device was and is quite common and networks are required to allow it. Nokia did produce a number of very premium smartphones (more expensive than the first iPhone, even!); they were just never all that consumer-friendly (though they made a few attempts).

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Re:The 7 Powers Known to Tesla, Pixar, Netflix, Apple, and T... by simfree on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:07PM (#27011135)
Twilio has little competitive moat against Signalwire, Teli, Telnyx, etc beyond developer mindshare.
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Re:The 7 Powers Known to Tesla, Pixar, Netflix, Apple, and T... by senectus1 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:45PM (#27011670)
very much a pop culture revisionist history yes.
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