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Originally Posted by MovieBird
As far as abandoning floppies first, I don't see that as a good thing. Up until the past few years you could not flash the BIOS on your motherboard from anything other than a floppy.
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I don't see anything wrong with your viewpoint on the subject (even though I disagree), but this example here is a bit of a strawman. When Apple ditched floppies, they didn't use floppies to flash the firmware on the motherboard (or anything else that vital) on their machines.
They could boot directly from CD, they could flash the firmware by writing the update to NVRAM and rebooting (the firmware would then update itself). Now, the sad reality is that even now, your phone's boot firmware is more advanced than what is in your BIOS because of a lack of drive to move to something like EFI which would modernize it. It gets the job done, but it's still one of those small things that if polished, leave an impact on the average customer.