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From the viewpoint of someone who has been practicing science daily for the last 30 years: I tend to agree
Re:Open-Source Quantum Development on Friday November 05, 2021 @07:20PM (#29125778)
IBM has early stage hardware that can be used for toy-ish proof of concept work. because the hardware is still very noisy and not error corrected, it cannot be used for more than extremely simple problems. also, access to anything but the simplest hardware systems is hard to get and expensive. so people who want to do research on quantum computing mostly use simulators. qiskit does both simulation as well as provide actual hardware access to IBMs hardware.