Read the first thing that popped up on DuckDuckGo for me about it To prove I’m not literally just making the concept up. https://bhsblueprint.org/showcase/2024/02/29/tis-calculator-empire-the-unstoppable-ti-84/
But again the point is still as always that I’m pitching a shift in perspective against always giving the benefit of the doubt to massive corporations literally in every aspect of any argument. What if-hear me out- what if, it actually doesn’t matter how Texas Instruments got their monopoly. That whether or not it was done “illegally” or as a natural result of shrewd business practices is ., in fact, deliberately obfuscating the fact that it is a monopoly, that it did come into existence by leveraging its standing as a weapons manufacturer and government partner to dominate a smaller market.
Like that would be the important part or something.
Yeah whatever. I loved Lemmy at first and I’m hoping it’s just the election season but gd this is terminally online. And that’s coming from me
I don't think Intel has that big of a monopoly if you take the whole CPU chip market. They might have majority PC share but consoles are mostly AMD and most new servers will/probably do move to AMD EPYC. Also ARM dominates the mobile space.