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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Apache, I am having a hard time perceiving the lesson.
Did Apple even have a shot at getting the IBM operating system contract that launched Microsoft into the computing stratosphere?
And wasn't Apple right to stick to their strength (designing, and overseeing the manufacturing, of high end hardware running their own operating systems)? Back when Apple licensed the Mac OS to other manufacturers, it wasn't all that successful.
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If Apple had licensed other companies to manufacture the hardware they could have concentrated on the OS and other software. Competition would have lowered the price of Apple computers as it did with the PC. They would still have had to have the Apple OS. This would have made Apple computers more competitive with the PC and it might even had been possible that Apple would be dominating the Personal Computer Market today. This business model is what made Bill Gates the richest man in the world. Instead their market share kept shrinking until they were hurting. If not for the iPod and iPhone, Apple may easily have gone under in the current economic climate. And I still see Apple continuing with the same business model today.
Apache