23 Dec
2019
23 Dec
'19
7:27 a.m.
tis 2019-11-26 klockan 19:16 -0800 skrev Fred Cisin via cctalk:
Good point.
Some companies that COULD HAVE been the leaders made great
inventions
and/or engineering, and then fumbled the marketing.
I'm thinking that Xerox Parc could be said to have "invented" the
next
generation of personal computers, but did they ever cash in on that?
I can visualize a Apple/Microsoft argument, "But we stole it FIRST!"
(like English/French/Spanish in America)
Regarding XEROX, i think that the project was to large for them to do
while having a proprietary mindset (we want to design the whole stack,
except some applications but we want to design the main one TOO.)
This included seeing Ethernet as a proprietary technology which could
be used to lock out the competition, Which turned out to be a tall
order.