By: So-crates
“…it prompted Microsoft’s Bill Gates to sagely note that…” No it didn’t. That frequently-applied misquote was debunked a decade ago. “…the iPhone, the first caveat-free mobile platform.” Not unless you...
View ArticleBy: Sebastian
Great Post! We also have been writing about the changes to come. You can read our thoughts on that matter in http://www.corvalius.com/blog/?p=88 Thank you very much!
View ArticleBy: Brandon
So-crates beat me to it. I’m not even really a Microsoft fan, but seeing the quote supposedly having been said by Bill Gates being attributed as fact made me skip the whole article.
View ArticleBy: Hamranhansenhansen
Oh, poor Bill Gates. And he was so right about so many other things … not. I remember reading “The Road Ahead” in hardcover in 1995. Gates sagely predicted that 1995-2000 would be all about the CD-ROM....
View ArticleBy: Mark Sigal
@So-crates and Brandon, you assert that this was debunked years ago. Pray tell, where was that debunked? I see ASSERTIONS all over the web that it was debunked, and I certainly know why Gates wouldn’t...
View ArticleBy: Andrew Glina
@Mark Sigal, why should they prove it? You’re the one making a claim on your blog so you should prove them wrong by providing evidence of where Bill said it and when. But I’m a kind fellow so I’ll help...
View ArticleBy: Mark Sigal
@Andrew, I understand that for some readers there is no separation of baby and bath water; and while I assert that the truth of whether this is folk legend or fact is murky at best, you are certainly...
View ArticleBy: ben
Hi Mark. I completely agree with you that this era is all about messaging. It’s a shame the big social networks are all still walled gardens which people have to join to send messages to one another. A...
View ArticleBy: Mark Sigal
@ben, thanks for the thoughts. Personally, micro-blogging services like Posterous seem to have the right approach in terms of making it easy to pull content in from a diversity of services (including...
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