When statements like X was better than Y come up. I always think of "All models are wrong, but some are useful", from statistician George E. P. Box, and rephras

When statements like X was better than Y come up. I always think of "All models are wrong, but some are useful", from statistician George E. P. Box, and rephrase it as "All models are flawed, but some are useful" so that model becomes ambiguous, such as a smartphone, TV, computer, car, programing language, programing design pattern, social media platform, and so on. Price-point, SGI technology was a financially flawed model pertaining to the growing market and more useful than flawed performance of the low cost technology market. Did anyone at SGI try to simply buy the low tech products, play with them a bit, and see about slowly integrating your tech to make that low tech product just a little better than the competition and cost effect for the market?