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Before the iPhone, Apple's Stunning Phone From 1983
Several readers pointed out the story of the Apple phone that never was, from 1983. Pictures of the concept phone are impressive, as you'd expect from Hartmut Esslinger, later founder of Frog Design. Even more interesting is that this phone is part of a much larger collection of Apple artifacts curated by Stanford.
because its cheap in the short term, just like Windows
Ignorance. An introspective person might wonder if your own attitude isn't born of ignorance. A person's greed is established long before he graduates from high school, or college, or begins his first business.
Bill Gates has never "given" anything to the world. Linus gave away an operating system. Gave it away. He has never charged me a dime for using his kernel, his logo, his name - nothing. He has never even asked me for a penny. Bill? What did he ever "give" me, or you?
Oh, don't bother to tell me about all the "fine work" he is doing now, after he's robbed the world of more billions than he can spend in the rest of his life. NOW, when he's so filthy rich that every bimbo in the world wants to sleep with him, he gives some money to charities. And, what people fail to see there is, he's trying to buy the only immortality that any man can buy. That "Bill and Melissa" foundation will last at least as long as the Carnegie Institute. Immortality, of a sort.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br