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by asveikau 714 days ago
> The absolute bone headed move they did is they continued to promote and sell their legacy models front and centre cannibalizing their own future growth.

That's kind of exactly what I meant, though.

Nokia made an almost identical mistake, before the Microsoft acquisition, by not doing a timely migration path from Symbian to Meego. The old business was a cash cow so they kept it going, not taking the new thing seriously.