manleyzoo
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If you lived it you'd know how ridiculous that last statement is. Those hardware companies are nothing like the companies of today in how they led the market. Google and Facebook are software driven and Apple's desktop revenue is small. No one led the market in software in those days. You do need a lecture on the computer market. One colossal difference is how slowly the technology changed in IBM's heyday, as compared to how it changes today every day with a snap of the finger. So 70% market share was achievable then because the industry moved like a sloth.But it’s not even a fraction of what it was when mainframe computing dominated the world and IBM had a 70% market share.
I don’t need a lot of help understanding the computer market over the past 40+ years. I lived it. When technological changes cause markets to disappear, few companies survive it. (IBM, Burroughs, Univac, Data General, Eastman Kodak, Xerox were once the Google, Apples and Facebooks of the day.