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Neither did Shell, Apple, Walmart or any of the other of hundreds of ultra-rich corporations. Which tells more about the Apollo program (and it's rather rapid cancellation before even finishing all the flights) than about those corporations.

How can we trust economic judgement from someone who uses a project which was only approved due to political grandstanding, as an example of successful corporate direction?

If anything, FB and GOOG will be strengthened by US economic protectionism and assault on China. They just have to continue navigating the political mindefield outside the US markets.

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Apple making the iPhone changed an entire decade.

I have one of each of Apple’s categories. But let’s be honest, Microsoft and Google have done more to bring technology to the masses than Apple has. Most of the world’s population either can’t or won’t pay Apple’s prices.

Apple is never going to make a $25 smart phone like you can get in India.

I still don't understand why people care so much about the iPhone. It's a bad computer that fits in your pocket. We've had PDAs for going on thirty years. Sure, it was a good PDA, but I have no idea how anyone can consider it revolutionary.

"Consumer" tech hasn't improved at all in my estimation since about 2002. The hardware has gotten better and the software has gotten more bloated, but a modern gadget can do roughly zero things that a gadget from 2002 couldn't.

2002 was the year of the Nokia 7650, their first phone with a camera - 0.3MP which it displayed on its 176x208 screen. It cost €740 in 2020 money (€550 back then).

In 2020 you can buy a second generation iPhone SE for €489, with a 1334x750 screen (at >6x pixel density) and 12MP camera.

These are not roughly equivalent pieces of hardware, and the software they run differs immensely. MMS is not Instagram.

I agree a lot on the increasingly bloated software. Even if Moore's law dies, we still have >20 years of software improvement to do !

What exactly does your sentence actually rebuke?

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