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Old 03-08-2014, 06:50 PM   #179
Sil_liS
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Originally Posted by Rizla View Post
That's a fair point, but I'm not sure it totally true.



The ipad was the first tablet to penetrate the mainstream. MS had been developing one for ages but were unable to make it for prime-time. The ipad was a huge innovation. It was a game-changer. Of course, now they are lagging behind.
What MS developed at the time wasn't meant to make it into the mainstream. It was meant to show the other manufacturers what can be done. It just happened that the manufacturer that got things going was Apple.

MS did the initial development, Apple used that and added marketing, manufacturers used Apple's marketing and added variety, this resulted in competition that got the specs high enough for MS to use their resource draining OS.

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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze View Post
Actually, Strayhorn is analogous to the creative teams hired by Jobs and Jobs would be analogous to Ellington's Svengali. Am I seeing a pattern of selective interpretation?
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