Platform Migration & Chokepoint Control

When computing shifts from one platform to another, the company that controls the 'chokepoint' of the new platform—its CPU, chip, or operating system—wins economies of scale and ecosystem monopoly. History shows this pattern repeating: desktop-to-mobile transitions reshuffle the competitive landscape entirely. Whoever becomes 'the Intel of the next computing form' first gains a moat lasting decades.

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