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I remember reading Sun’s financial statements at the time and bragging about huge 50% margins and thinking that can’t last. In some alternate timeline, Sun woul
by 205guy 6y ago
I remember reading Sun’s financial statements at the time and bragging about huge 50% margins and thinking that can’t last. In some alternate timeline, Sun would’ve lowered their prices, stayed in the game, and we’d all have rock solid Sparc laptops by now.
- tempfs 6y agoYeah, no way to survive in the computing game very long with super high margins. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/profit-margins https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/profit-...
- giovannibonetti 6y agoWhat about Apple?
- yyyk 6y agoSun didn't have Jobs's Reality Distortion Field technology. It can't work otherwise.
- danielscrubs 6y agoOh but Sun did. It’s what made them rich and it wasn’t pretty.
- blackrock 6y ago“We’re the dot in dotcom.“ Well, they ended up as the .loser instead.
- DonHopkins 6y agoSun: "We put the dot into dot-com!" Microsoft: "Oh yeah? Well we put the COM into dot-com. Pthththth!" IBM: ”When they put the dot into dot-com, they forgot how they were going to connect the dots. Badoom psssh!” https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/ibm-brings-on-demand-computing-to-the-channel/4107 https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/ibm-brings-on-demand-computin...
- badocr 6y agoThat was Cisco slogan.
- projektfu 6y agoI remember looking at the invoice for a SPARCStation 20 and thinking, you know, it's a little better than a $2,000 PC, but it's not 10 times better.