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If you had a machine that prints money, you wouldn't sell it, would you? You would run it yourself.

It's the same case as with high-end electronic components since 10-15 years ago. No one can/could produce their own smartphone because the high end components are sold only to the largest incumbents. A medium-size startup "has the money" to buy these, even in volume. But qualcomm won't sell.

Same fate expects us here in general purpose computing. Hard to believe, but so was what happened to the electronics supply chain, at the time.