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Kind of related: Apple early on donated to schools, so graduates would want Macs at their first job.


Good point. It also got a hefty tax writeoff.

That said, everyone does this to some extent. It's a bit different from intentionally obliterating competitors with dumped products cross-funded from profitable businesses.


Reminds me of Dell, using servers to drive down desktop margins. Then when everybody got into servers, they went into printers. Anything to get an advantage and squeeze the commodity item.




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