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Article #620155Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
From: jmfbahciv
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 15:55
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 15:55
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Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2018-02-03, J Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 11:49:09 -0800 (PST), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >> >>> For whatever reasons, AT&T didn't succeed at computers. >> >> Mostly didn't see where the market was going. In hindsight the way >> to structure it would have been to have two of the Baby Bells compete >> in CPU manufacture, another couple in hardware, and another one sells >> Unix with all the bells and whistles for, say, 200 bucks to all >> comers. They'd have addressed all the concerns--second source for >> processors, second source for assembled machines, well established >> operating system. >> >> But they didn't do that. > > AT&T was used to operating in a monopoly environment. > They never managed to adapt to a competitive mindset. > They were also arrogant and tried to block competition in the telephone area, including long distance. They also were unwilling to provide telephone services needed by customers. Customers started to go to other phone companies which ATT hassled. Remember the two long distance companies which almost went bankrupt (I can't recall their names). ATT shenanigans w.r.t. these companies caused Justice to start monopoly proceedings. The breakup had nothing to do with the computing business. /BAH
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