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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
MS muscled, and got whacked by the antitrust courts for it.
Apple did no such thing in the MP3 player market, the touch-phone market, nor the tablet market.
They just built and offered products that people wanted to buy.
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When I said "same thing", I wasn't talking about the "muscling". I was referring to coming into an already established class and dominating it. I was just addressing the notion that you have to get in on the ground floor with a new device/software class. That's demonstrably false. What you need to succeed in a situation like that is marketing muscle (at least). HP certainly has that. If they put the kind of thought into the ads that they put into their laptop ads a while back (the ones that had celebrities talking about them, showing only their hands), that would do really well, I think.