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Several of the companies I mentioned also had this, some rather notoriously, such as Sun, IBM, and Microsoft.
How so? None of those were directly consumer companies.
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How so? None of those were directly consumer companies.
I guess you'll have to define what you mean by "none of those were directly consumer companies" because I disagree, with the exception of Sun.
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I guess you'll have to define what you mean by "none of those were directly consumer companies" because I disagree, with the exception of Sun.
As in apple has a consumer brand which creates a sense of status, and then a developer ecosystem which has to develop for Apple since they have the highest paying consumers, and a they have services which create switching costs if you try leaving the ecosystem as a consumer
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As in apple has a consumer brand which creates a sense of status, and then a developer ecosystem which has to develop for Apple since they have the highest paying consumers, and a they have services which create switching costs if you try leaving the ecosystem as a consumer
You just described Acorn, Atari, DEC, Nintendo, Commodore, HP, IBM, SCO, Sun and Microsoft in certain decades. A few of those aren't strictly consumer, I suppose, but my point is: all empires decline.