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Title: Goal posts of the imagination: Innovation means shipping
Post by: HCK on January 24, 2015, 09:00:28 pm
Goal posts of the imagination: Innovation means shipping

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Let’s go back in time seven years. That was when the Macalope first wrote this (http://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-dooomed/):</p>

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It’s amazing how future Microsoft products beat current Apple products time and time again, isn’t it? You’d think Apple would have just given up by now.</p>

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That was in response to contentions that Windows Mobile 7 (which later shipped as Windows Phone) would crush the iPhone. Not that that context has anything to do with what we’re about to talk about. Cough.</p><p>
Now, back to the present where Microsoft shows us the future (http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us). Again. It looks kinda cool. It’s not, technically speaking, holograms as it was described, oh, 10,000 times in Wednesday’s presentation, but what else are you gonna call them?</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2874385/goal-posts-of-the-imagination.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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