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> Microsoft was halfway there I see that more as “on a way there, without knowing how far they were, and even without being sure the road they were on would no
by Someone 4y ago
> Microsoft was halfway there
I see that more as “on a way there, without knowing how far they were, and even without being sure the road they were on would not reach a dead end”.
What makes you think they were halfway? Even if there are good arguments now that they were, could they have known them at the time?
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- lotsofpulp 4y agoMost importantly, Microsoft had and has a secure source of tens of billions of dollars of profit with which they can fund development of a product to compete with Apple. If Microsoft could not, then there simply is no non governmental entity that can. By halfway there, I am just speculating, but given that they are one of the eminent employers of programmers in the world, as well as having strong relationships with hardware designers, I assume they had the capacity to iterate over and over to eventually catch up to Apple.