[205guy]

I remember reading Sun’s financial statements at the time and bragging about huge 50% margins and thinking that can’t last. In some alternate timeline, Sun would’ve lowered their prices, stayed in the game, and we’d all have rock solid Sparc laptops by now.

[projektfu]

I remember looking at the invoice for a SPARCStation 20 and thinking, you know, it's a little better than a $2,000 PC, but it's not 10 times better.

[tempfs]

Yeah, no way to survive in the computing game very long with super high margins.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/profit-...

[yyyk]

Sun didn't have Jobs's Reality Distortion Field technology. It can't work otherwise.

[danielscrubs]

Oh but Sun did. It’s what made them rich and it wasn’t pretty.

[giovannibonetti]

What about Apple?

[blackrock]

“We’re the dot in dotcom.“

Well, they ended up as the .loser instead.

[badocr]

That was Cisco slogan.

[blihp]

No it wasn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njnNVV5QNaA

[blackrock]

That was terrible.

Thanks for the LOLs.

[DonHopkins]

Sun: "We put the dot into dot-com!"

Microsoft: "Oh yeah? Well we put the COM into dot-com. Pthththth!"

IBM: ”When they put the dot into dot-com, they forgot how they were going to connect the dots. Badoom psssh!”

https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/ibm-brings-on-demand-computin...