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Originally Posted by mdmorrissey
And this explains why they have been trying (in vain) to become little computers and will fail. If they had been smart, they would have done what I suggested above. Greed has been their downfall. I doubt that they will remain even as bookends, though, because -- unlike calculators and in contrast to what RogueLibrarian says, they do NOT do even their most elemental tasks well.
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Um... the prediction I was making was
there will be one on every desk, alongside the calculator. Calculators have managed to survive and they still look much like the Sinclair original (showing my age again here). Plenty of people still use them. If somebody asked "What's the point of a calculator?" people would wonder what he was going on about.