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Apple: suffered from Windows PC competition in the 1990s but came roaring back under Steve Jobs. They doubled down on high-quality design, user experience, and
by musicale 10mo ago
Apple: suffered from Windows PC competition in the 1990s but came roaring back under Steve Jobs. They doubled down on high-quality design, user experience, and vertical integration, and even switched from PowerPC to x86 and ARM, and from classic macOS to BSD-based OS X.
HP(E): after stumbling with itanium, replaced its proprietary Unix server business with x86 and Linux.
- BobbyTables2 10mo agoHP(E) managed to survive but I wouldn’t say they’re a roaring success. They went from 300k employees to a small fraction. They went from designing graphics cards in-house to practically rebranding white box servers. (Yes, they still make their own servers, too much of the design and manufacturing work being done by outside firms). They’ve also thrown away a mind boggling amount of talent and institutional knowledge of storage and networking.
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