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Unofficial death of Windows Phone
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10/09/2013 08:38:26
 
 
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>>>>>>something like the mi2 or mi3 from xiaomi sound more interesting. Have you had such in your hands ?
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>>>>They'll ship to you via Merimobiles or DealExtreme. I have 4 devices currently. Zopo C2 Platinum probably my favourite. I prefer iPad to the tablets, very latest phablets are amazing.
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>>>I was an excellent dad on Friday and gave my younger daughter an iPad for her 21st birthday. At first she said she didn't know what she would use it for. Like most tablet users I have known, she quickly found uses she didn't know she had.
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>>>Charles H., please forgive me, but here is another tribute to Apple. For one company to come up with the Apple II, the Mac, the iMac, the iPhone, and the iPad, that's amazing. Here is the visionary in top form. (Neither he nor Woz could have done it without the other. They literally met in a garage).
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>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftf4riVJyqw
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>>Not as amazing at it might seem.
>>Take a look at what HP has done since its founding -also in a garage- or Intel - a few brilliant guys with an idea.
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>>HP especially. It blows my mind when I think of what that company did.
>>It's a shame that that great company lost its way when the founders passed on.
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>>The most under-applauded company though.. is those guys who all wore blue suits... IBM.
>>Just about everything we do is based on architecture developed first by IBM on mainframes.
>>Data channels, priority interrupts, virtual memory, multi-threading, the wide application of the serial port (RS232), DOS (Disk Operating System - even the word "byte" are inherited from IBM 360 and 370 concepts of the 60's and 70's.
>>If you look closely at the original IBM PC, you'll see an IBM 370 drastically reduced in size to a few chips and an MS DOS that closely resembles the DOS that shipped with the IBM 370.
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>>Trivia question:
>>Does anyone know what the "RS" in RS232 stands for?
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>I respect you but it astounds me that you consider the original PC a milestone product. It did legitimize the PC market to corporate America, true. But there was nothing revolutionary about it and it was nothing like a 370. If you want to debate IBM mainframes, I'll BXLE that ;-)

Mike

There's revolutionary and there's revolutionary.

When I saw VisiCalc on an Apple II, I said "Holy Sh*t!" and ran out and bought one.
For some reason, I still don't know why, I couldn't get that reaction from clients.

On the other hand, the day the IBM PC was announced. Malcolm Forbes saw one, said "Holy Sh*t!", called John Akers, and ordered one for everyone in the Forbes office. A few years later I had the job of replacing all those dual floppy clunkers.
For several years after that announcement, IBM's production was completely sold out and the days of the electric typewriter (another IBM contribution) were over.
It flattened the minicomputer industry.
Remember high-flying names like DEC, Wang, Data General, Tandem, Status, Prime?

No one would give the Model T awards for technical brilliance, but a unique synthesis of timing, pricing and marketing made it a revolutionary product that transformed the way people move themselves.

That's what the IBM PC did for office automation.

ftf4riVJyqw
Anyone who does not go overboard- deserves to.
Malcolm Forbes, Sr.
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