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To be fair, IBM products back in the day when that saying made sense never had these kinds of problems. It's straight up insulting to compare them to somebody like Crowdstrike.

Wintel won by being cheaper and shittier and getting a critical mass of fly by night OEMs and software vendors on board.

IBM was more analogous to the way Apple handles things. Heavy vertical integration and premium price point with a select few software and hardware vendors working very closely with IBM when software and hardware analogous to Crowdstrike in terms of access was created.




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