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Originally Posted by jamesqf

Then along came the IBM PC with its completely open architecture, C64 sales tank and disappear completely by 1994, while PC clones were selling around 100 million units per year: http://www.retrocomputing.net/info/s...tal_share.html

The PC was a great success... except for IBM. They cornered themselves in with the PS2 line.
But so did the others. Commodore (with the Amiga). Atari, Apple, Sinclair, all had models that were superior to the early PCs but then failed to invest and expand timely. They all lost out to the PC clone builders.
In the end, the hardware wasn't profitable anymore.

What made the Commodore 64 great at first, and the PC later, was the software that ran on them.
Novell NetWare was instrumental in office automation and put the PC in the forefront more than anything else.
Only to get squashed by Windows Server later on...

Anyway, Tesla does not need competitors cloning their models, modular or not.