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Originally Posted by ekehat
What happened to Sony in the mobile music players market is telling - they resisted coming out with a good device, to avoid cannibalizing their music publishing business, and so the WalkMan brand has made way to the iPod. I doubt whether today's teenagers even know that Sony once dominated this market.
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This echos the move from the Intel 80286 chips to the 80386 chips. IBM resisted creating PCs with the 386 in them because such PCs would eat into their low end mini-computer sales.
So other companies took over and IBM fell as being the premier PC maker.
As the old saying goes "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Now, if only we can send the gov't and Content Cartel back to high school and have them study why prohibition failed so horribly.