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Yeah, but they didnt depend on the existance of another product(like Outlook).

• pmjordan 18y ago
  "the IBM PC", "the consumer internet/www"
  • staunch 18y ago
    Is this like an IQ test question? Which one doesn't belong in this list? 1) The IBM PC 2) The Internet/Web 3) Outlook
    • rms 18y ago
      "organizing the world's information"
    • potatolicious 18y ago
      None. The poster's point stands: all of the above successful companies built themselves within the ecosystem of yet another product. There's no need to own everything end-to-end, Outlook is a popular enough product that relying on it is not too bad a bet in the short to mid term.
    • pmjordan 18y ago
      I'm not quite sure what you're trying to imply here. I bet there are substantially more people using outlook today than IBM PCs in the early 80s, or web users in 1998. There are viable alternatives to outlook of course, but I suspect it'll be around for some time. At the time the IBM PC was released there were also plenty of viable alternatives, and I suspect it wasn't so obvious which one would win at the time.