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To: Swordmaker
You — and your friends and family — live their lives surrounded by things his inventive hands have touched. The iPhone, the iPad, the new MacBook.

No, actually we don't.

27 posted on 05/28/2015 3:41:00 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

If you have a smart phone (other than blackberry), you probably have.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-day-google-had-to-start-over-on-android/282479/

I remember reading this years ago. Quotes from the article:

...the Sooner phone was ugly. It looked like a Black-Berry, with a traditional keyboard and a small screen that wasn’t touch-enabled.

“Holy crap,” he said to one of his colleagues in the car. “I guess we’re not going to ship that phone.”

“We knew that Apple was going to announce a phone. Everyone knew that. We just didn’t think it would be that good,” said Ethan Beard, one of Android’s early business development executives.


Competition is wonderful.


31 posted on 05/28/2015 4:59:41 AM PDT by LearnsFromMistakes (Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
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