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Greedy AAA companies can't comprehend the Valve mindset. (europe.pub)

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[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Part of the winning strategy.

See: Microsoft.

Imagine having a market almost entirely captured only to shill AI products that no one cares about and including them into your OS. Imagine selling operating systems and still including advertisements in them.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

And not being content with ads only on the start menu, but also pushing them on windows explorer. Oh, and killing notepad for an "ai enhanced" new version

[–] saimen@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

On the other hand, look at Nokia. It is possible to lose a overwhelming market dominance rapidly by missing a trend.