The 'Free in the OS' Framework for Identifying Doomed Hardware Startups

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Any startup whose value proposition is 'a piece of hardware that does X' should ask: what happens if Apple, Google, or Samsung ships X as a software feature on a device the customer already owns? Square's entire defensibility rested on selling card-reader hardware; the moment Tap to Pay turned an iPhone into that…

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