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teyc on June 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: RIM announces $518 million loss, 5,000 job cuts, d...

This is so interesting. We now have:

1. Apple - who makes great hardware and great software winning 2. Google - who doesn't make hardware and gives away OK software winning 3. RIM - who makes good hardware and OK software losing 4. MS - who doesn't make hardware and makes OK software losing

It goes to show that business model both matters and doesn't matter.

kjhughes on June 28, 2012 [–]

Or maybe it goes to show that your good/great/ok assessments across hardware/software categories aren't good predictors of winning/losing.

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