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Because no one else would have filled that void... That's like saying if Henry Ford had never mass produced cars, no one would have figured it out... Yes MS c
by Mikeb85 12y ago
Because no one else would have filled that void...
That's like saying if Henry Ford had never mass produced cars, no one would have figured it out...
Yes MS created the PC ecosystem in the 90's, but if they hadn't, someone else would have (Apple? IBM? Maybe even Sun?). Market pressure would have eventually driven down prices, it always does...
- angersock 12y agoThat's not how history happened. Apple was busy shooting itself in the foot as a boutique brand. IBM was not interested in lowering prices. Sun (and SGI for that matter) were heavily wed to the workstation and high-end server market. Microsoft (and Intel) by careful work made it possible for cheaper hardware to still run a product people wanted, and so create the market pressures you're referring to. They were a pure software company, and used that to enable competition in the hardware market.