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Originally Posted by RedDevil
The PC was a great success... except for IBM. They cornered themselves in with the PS2 line.
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Temporarily, but the PS/2 was an aberration that proves my point. Later on they went back to making regular PCs and laptops (e.g. ThinkPad) until they sold that business to Lenovo. Invented and made the technology for high-capacity disk drives, before selling off that business...
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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.
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IDK that those others were superior to the PC. The only one I had any experience with was Apple, and they were crap. Likewise with hardware not being profitable: it may not have been for IBM (but that was due to trying to get back to a closed architecture), but there were and are any number of hardware manufacturers that make decent profits. (NVidia, anyone?) It's just that hardware makers had to concentrate on generic/compatible components that almost anyone could use to assemble a system. And that brought the price of systems down.
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Anyway, Tesla does not need competitors cloning their models, modular or not.
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So they can become to the electric car business what IBM was to the personal computer business? Or perhaps they'll be the Apple instead: overpriced and underperforming hardware that survives because of fanboys and a percieved "coolness" factor.