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To: Hardraade

To start with, perhaps but the history of Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of “tech” brilliant companies that didn’t have the business side.


20 posted on 04/30/2012 2:07:15 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Newt says, "A nominee that depresses turnout won't beat Barack Obama.")
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To: newzjunkey

Yes, and Apple almost ended up a corpse. Largely thank to Jobs.

The Apple II was open, expandable, and inspired tons of innovation. Then came Lisa, which was so closed that floppies had to be sent to Apple for formatting and which had no user-reachable parts.

At that time, IBM/PC just grabbed the Apple II open architecture and has kept expanding ever since.

There’s a reason Apple succeeds. I’ll not tell you what it is :).


21 posted on 04/30/2012 2:52:26 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
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