>>>I think you are a playing a little fast and loose with the meaning of embracing of a new technology in terms of the replacement of an established one.
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>You think I wrote the IDC article? They're the ones who said that the PC-centric era is over. Perhaps you should go share with them rather than blaming me. ;-)
But I assumed that since you chose to believe them you had some independent corroboration. <s>
Besides, as a cranky old man I have reserved the right to cast blame broadly. I find shouting at passing traffic quite therapeutic.
( Did you post the link to the IDC article? I would like to read it )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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