A Single-product Company CAN focus on solving its development & survival, even thriving.

A Multi-direction Company can't.

It's always making the average between directions
( ideal to each product/market )
become its overall direction.

Contrast Coca-Coalla, purveyor of liquid unhealth, with Pepsico, purveyor of damn-near-anything.

Coca-Coalla ( it IS the colour of liquified coal, isn't it? ) 
has always been drastically more profitable.

Focus is the means of market-effectiveness, 
and she has it, and EMC doesn't.

I'd invest only in focused companies, nowadays...

Who do you go to for Jam?
Smuckers or General Foods?

Who do you go to for anti-spywear?
AdAware/Lavasoft or Microsoft?

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