I think the analogy probably doesn't stand up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8293961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8293961 A better analogy may be

I think the analogy probably doesn't stand up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8293961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8293961 A better analogy may be what things would have been like if Apple had kept slogging it out in the handheld-computer market between '98 and '07.