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Why did people betray IBM and bought clones instead of genuine IBM pc's?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVdvTnhkTO8
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Failure to deliver via 3D printer is a sin.
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>>107585388
Because clones were cheaper for the same quality or better
Corporations are not your friends or family. You get nothing from paying more for the same shit
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>>107585491
>Corporations are not your friends or family
Factual truth (statistically relevant model)
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>>107585491
But they tell me in my job that we are a family....
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>>107585388
Less money, more features.
IBM neglected the consumer market in favor of their traditional ways and paid for it.
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IBM tried to keep their PCs weak, as not to compete with their own "real" computers. So Compaq launched one with the spankin' new 386 first, and it took IBM almost a whole year to respond.
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>>107585550
Tell me which corporation and we work to negotiate a deal in your favor.
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>>107585388
Buying from a brand simply because it's that particular brand is niggercattle behaviour.
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>>107585629
>first the Tandy 1000 blowing the fuck out of the PCjr
>then this
Yeah, no wonder IBM died
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>>107585388
Clones were cheaper, sir.
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for the same reasons why people chose linux over windows
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>>107585721
Tell that to Apple users
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>>107585388
money



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