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Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by caslon on Saturday October 02, 2021 @07:01PM (#28732895)
That's not exactly the truth. "Closed and worse" often does better than "open and better." It really just comes down to who has better salesmen.

Microsoft, for example, licensed Windows to vendors for decades with the requirement they not have another operating system pre-installed. This killed both "closed and better" and "open and better" systems alike!

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Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by robbedpeter on Saturday October 02, 2021 @11:52PM (#28734399)
Salesmen? Nah. They don't pay that game anymore.

It's about who has more capital to aggressively out price competition, even by taking ridiculous losses. Or buy promising startups, or litigate potential competitors into oblivion.

Diapers.com for example. It's not about anything close to sales and marketing.

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