It's much easier to develop a product if you don't need to make money for financing the development. Selling is also easier if you can afford marketing budgets

It's much easier to develop a product if you don't need to make money for financing the development. Selling is also easier if you can afford marketing budgets and sales people. As long as they are losing money they are basically selling 1 dollar bills for 90 cents. Hard to compete with that. It's not impossible to compete but just much harder.