• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    1 year ago

    i would add cost as a barrier to entry. as cheap as the hardware it, it needed a more heavily subsidized distribution.

    apple only exists because they practically gave away equipment en masse to school districts as the market became flooded with ‘ibm compatibles’
    they built an entire generation of apple-loving folks by dumping huge amounts of money/resources into those programs.