By chimeracoder
> The OEM’s participated in a race to the bottom in an effort to maximize how many people bought PC’s. This caused damage to the Windows/PC brand.
That’s what strengthened the Windows brand in the first place – availability, unbiquity, and the sense of it being the “default” (“nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft”).
Over time, the lack of control over the quality resulted in variation, and Apple was eventually able to capitalize on that by selling themselves as consistent experience, but that’s only within the last decade. The OEM situation with Windows has been the case literally since before Windows (it existed during the DOS era as well).
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10427164
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