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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
Bro: your tracfone, your razor, your Nextel chirp (yes, these winners made them too), and your startac were all the iPhones of their day. 
  
 Hat tip to Bro on another post alerted me to the fact they lost the chip war with intel at the birth of the pc, even though they had better chips. 
  
 So much fail......

gpt
Many better chipsets lost out to Intel (former Sparc fanboi here).  Turns out, we never needed a better chipset...we always needed better fabrication until a couple years ago.  Which no one has ever come close to Intel on fab. 
  
 That said, ARM (ie Snapdragon) is killing Intel in the mobile market, because power usage has become more important than raw power.