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0 pointsKeyframe9y ago0 comments

We do have a precedent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone Radius machines were great!

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rdsnsca9y ago· 1 in thread

And tha clones almost killed Apple, which is why it was the first thing Steve Jobs killed after his return to Apple.

Clones weren't the ones that almost killed Apple. Apple was the one that almost killed Apple. Ran itself into a ground by a guy whose previous experience was selling flavoured sugar water.

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