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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by vGPU on Monday November 27, 2023 @03:28PM (#38437791)
And it’s not just Japanese companies that manage to pull that off. Some others have managed to do the same. See: Lego, for example. They branched out into movies, games, and parks, but their primary and core product remains bricks.
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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by Exoristos on Monday November 27, 2023 @08:18PM (#38441043)
It's pretty much anything U.S. oligarchs don't control.
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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by indrora on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:59PM (#38441753)
Lego has had issues for years, and has faced bankruptcy[1] through to several years ago just going "Whoops we made too many bricks..."[2]

Lego's original core competency was toys, but not plastic ones. The original Lego toys were nearly all wooden, but they gained success with the plastic bricks.

It's unfortunate how many spinoffs they've had that failed.

[1] https://business.time.com/2012/07/23/innovation-almost-bankr...

[2]https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43298897

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