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michaelpinto
on Feb 20, 2012
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Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma
By the way it's important to recall that one of the first things that Jobs killed were the Apple clones -- an idea that HBR pushed in the 90s.
bwarp
on Feb 20, 2012
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The irony now being that the Mac is from a hardware level, a PC clone...
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It is now, but in 1995 it wasn't. Apple designed custom chipsets (apparently different ones for every model...) and then sold them to clone vendors at prices that didn't recoup their R&D.
bwarp
on Feb 20, 2012
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Well that wasn't very clever was it.
michaelpinto
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...a PC clone running Unix!
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