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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mac is software - why not on NeXT?
Message-ID: <130115@gore.com>
Date: 7 Nov 90 01:24:32 GMT
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Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
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/ comp.sys.next / q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) / Nov  6, 1990 /
> Look at the IBM
> clone market.  IBM allowed other people to manufacture the BIOS and other
> components of IBM systems, so people did the obvious thing, buy the separate
> parts and make their own.  IBM's share of the PC market fell something
> like 40% due to that decision. 

But look how the market grew because of that decision.

It's better to have 40% of a 10-unit market than 100% of a 1-unit market,
is it not?

Jacob
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