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> Fast food is not great just because it's popular. It's not good for you, as a consumer. As a company, it's a trillion dollar market, nurturing some of the la
by Sebb767 2y ago
> Fast food is not great just because it's popular.
It's not good for you, as a consumer. As a company, it's a trillion dollar market, nurturing some of the largest companies in the world.
- VelesDude 2y agoEven Bill Gates has admitted that a big part of their success was just sheer luck. There were many competitors that were pushing far better technology than they had but simply could not get a foot hold in the market. Just the other day on here I mentioned BeOS/Haiku OS, the tech vision on that thing is astounding but it simply did not pan out into any sort of market success. Same with parts of Commodore, IBM, NeXT. MS did capitalize and manipulate the market to assist themselves and keep competitors out, but just becaused they won doesn't mean they had the best technology.
- saulpw 2y agoMicrosoft intentionally and specifically suffocated BeOS. That was not luck.