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Gateway never really even manufactured computers = they assembled them from components built by real tech manufacturers. As clones went, they were high quality
by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Gateway never really even manufactured computers = they assembled them from components built by real tech manufacturers. As clones went, they were high quality, and well-supported, but there was nothing else to differentiate them from any other clone. I reckon their demise was written into their business model from the outset.
- dehrmann 4y agoThere was a lot of consolidation in the space. Lots of mom-and-pop shops, IBM, HP, Compaq, Packard Bell, Dell, and many, many more (my first computer was an AST). They all did the same thing, and there wasn't space for that many players. The most telling bit was that IBM, the company that defined what all the others would clone, sold off that business to Lenovo.
- digisign 4y agoDell survived. Nothing to be ashamed of making clones, they enabled the growth of the PC industry.