Nothing special whatsoever about iPhone - as any Japanese person would tell you... ;)   MacMini is nothing new either.  There have been micro PCs around for ages.  The design, cost, and marketing weren't there - but that's another story.

Reminds me of an old newspaper cartoon.  When they allegedly 'discovered' cold fusion, the cartoon showed all of the other countries discovering it while Japan was coming out with the 'cold fusion car' already.

Well, okay.  MacOS, MacOSX, MSDOS, Windows, Linux, SGI, PalmOS, WindowsCE, LegOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, C64 OS, GEOS, a couple proprietary OSs besides, even one that you could get from a book about writing your own OS (I've only gone as far as writing my own Windowed GUI for MSDOS) -  I've been around the corner more times than you think. :D

Nothing special about what MS comes out with either - they just copy and crush - XBox for instance, J++, and so on.

Jobs is a visionary salesperson - and he knows how to run his business to keep it fertile.  Yes, I like his style - actually reminds me of Commodore when the Amiga was big (for like a couple years).

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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