Ask HN: Which companies gained a competitive edge purely via engineering?
5 points - last Monday at 2:21 PM
For example: WhatsApp or Crash Bandicoot (1996)?
mrhottakes
last Monday at 2:44 PM
A long long time ago: Oracle
yepyoukno
last Monday at 2:47 PM
Uh, wut?
Try “Sun Microsystems”!
mrhottakes
last Monday at 2:57 PM
That is another company that built an advantage with engineering, true.
farseer
last Tuesday at 12:10 PM
Google search was way better than yahoo or altavista
aristofun
last Wednesday at 1:42 PM
Whatsapp, really?
Johanx64
last Wednesday at 2:37 PM
Before FB acquisition:
Yes, really, it ran on potato feature phones you've never even heard of. That can only happen if you really bend backwards to make it happen.
Massive userbase with very tiny team.
aristofun
last Wednesday at 5:11 PM
Okay. Cause it still feels like running on a potato phone on latest iphone :)
dennisjoseph
last Tuesday at 5:14 PM
Garmin
nimblist
last Wednesday at 6:27 PM
In theory they still do. I can't imagine giving up weeks of battery life for wondering whether it's going to last through the day but apple/galaxy watch buyers see differently by a massive margin
AnimalMuppet
last Tuesday at 3:28 AM
SGI.
Hewlett Packard.
DEC.
bitbasher
last Monday at 9:17 PM
Bell Labs
hnthrow10282910
last Wednesday at 8:54 PM
Crazy company. Not sure any has existed like it with possibly the exception of early Google