> Your example is leaving aside an entire new market to protect an existing one. The new market is the combined tablet/laptop market, and you are leaving it as

> Your example is leaving aside an entire new market to protect an existing one. The new market is the combined tablet/laptop market, and you are leaving it aside to protect your existing separate tablet/laptop businesses with an inferior product to maintain sales. Businesses can either protect their existing products that are "good enough", or they can be consumer-centric and keep pushing forwards to create the best products. The second strategy will usually beat the first in the long term.