No, they pivoted to shotgun sequencing earlier, which had better scaling properties because it's self-decoupled. There was a hangup about it only affording asym

No, they pivoted to shotgun sequencing earlier, which had better scaling properties because it's self-decoupled. There was a hangup about it only affording asymptotic completeness (aka completeness was "only theoretical") and them they realized how silly that statement is, and how the decoupling trade-off gave them an advantage because of their deep pockets.