> I don't remember any company flubbing their unassailable lead quite this badly.
I do.
Heck, among other examples, I remember the company being Intel, the market being x86 general purpose desktop/laptop processors, and the firm they blew their long-established unassailable lead to being AMD. I also remember AMD turning around much quicker and flubbing it back...
Actually, unless I'm mistaken, that happened twice before, the first time being the reason the now-universal standard for 64-bit x86 is what used to be “AMD64”.
> AMD gets the mindshare (which it is in the process of acquiring), with some lag those sales will start to die, and it'll be too late to do much about them then
AMD had the mindshare for quite a while before, but Intel was able to do enough about it that people apparently forget that it even happened. The market is fickle, and AMD is at least at good as flubbing advantaged positions as Intel, judging from history.
I do.
Heck, among other examples, I remember the company being Intel, the market being x86 general purpose desktop/laptop processors, and the firm they blew their long-established unassailable lead to being AMD. I also remember AMD turning around much quicker and flubbing it back...
Actually, unless I'm mistaken, that happened twice before, the first time being the reason the now-universal standard for 64-bit x86 is what used to be “AMD64”.
> AMD gets the mindshare (which it is in the process of acquiring), with some lag those sales will start to die, and it'll be too late to do much about them then
AMD had the mindshare for quite a while before, but Intel was able to do enough about it that people apparently forget that it even happened. The market is fickle, and AMD is at least at good as flubbing advantaged positions as Intel, judging from history.