As with many great innovations, Mr Gates’s vision has come to seem so obvious that it is hard to imagine the world any other way.

Early on, he grasped two things that were far from obvious at the time, and he grasped them more clearly and pursued them more fiercely than his rivals did at Commodore, MITS or even Apple.

The first was that computing could be a high-volume, low-margin business. Profit would come from selling a lot of them cheaply, not servicing a few at a great price. And the company that won a large market share at the start would prevail later on.

Mr Gates also realised that making hardware and writing software could be stronger as separate businesses. In spite of the bugs and crashes,they used to reap vast economies of scale and profits.

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蓋茨先生有很多偉大的革新，其夢(mèng)想已經(jīng)成為現(xiàn)實(shí)，很難想象沒有他的創(chuàng)舉世界會(huì)如何。

很早以前，他就牢牢把握了現(xiàn)在看來天經(jīng)地義的兩個(gè)理念，并且堅(jiān)定不移的推行，比他的對(duì)手Commodore MITS甚至蘋果公司更加努力執(zhí)著。

第1個(gè)理念是計(jì)算機(jī)行業(yè)可以做到薄利多銷。利潤來自低價(jià)高銷量，而不是高價(jià)低銷量。最先在開始階斷贏得大量市場(chǎng)份額者將在以后的競(jìng)爭中獲得極大優(yōu)勢(shì)。

蓋茨先生還意識(shí)到把硬件生產(chǎn)和軟件開發(fā)分做兩個(gè)行業(yè)效果更好。盡管缺乏穩(wěn)定性并且小錯(cuò)不斷，但當(dāng)時(shí)掠取了大筆市場(chǎng)份額和利潤。

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