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kul on Nov 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates?

"Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements"

Nice. Explains Google commoditizing mobile operating systems (complement) to increase demand for their product (search).

anon1385 on Nov 5, 2011 [–]

Search is not their product; adspace is.

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