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		criddell on Oct 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM is splitting itself into two public companies Clayton Christensen has written and talked about how Dell sold their business piece-by-piece. Each individual step seemed like a good move - it lowered costs and increased profits. Until one day the companies they outsourced to had it all and they started selling better computers for less money than Dell. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/18/clayton...

rbanffy on Oct 8, 2020 [–]

It's interesting that the difference between that and Apple is that since Apple controls the OS, nobody else can make a Mac.

Unfortunately for Dell, anyone can make a PC.

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