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Bill Gates: Cellphone will Beat iPod
93,000 writes "CNN is running an article featuring Gates' prediction that the iPod is on the way out. From the article: 'As good as Apple may be, I don't believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run.' His prediction for a successor? Mobile phones-- powered by none other than Windows Mobile 5.0, of course."
... in a related move, Sony announced today its complete confidence in the Betamax format. Film at 11.
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Person Y says technology by company X won't last.
Instead, person Y believes technology made by person Y's company will win long-term!
If history is a good guide, the future iPod will become a monitor.
Maybe someday it will have wireless *and* more space than a Nomad.
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Well, I am running 640k of RAM just fine, you insensitive clod!
It's like "Rock Paper Scissors"
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Has anyone ever done any reseach on how often Bill Gates has been right in his predictions?
I'm sure that at one time, he predicted that Microsoft would dominate the desktop computing market. It seems he made a few bucks off that, but hey, let's wait and see if it really catches on or it's just a fad.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Microsoft?
Actually, I'm banned after the last incident.....
rm -rf
five years ago [...] a woman came up to me
And you still haven't quite gotten over it, have you?
... if you think of it as a PDA with a built-in phone, which is how you should be looking at it, then there's nothing at all wrong with its size ...
And if you think of it as an anvil with a built-in phone, it's even better!