On 6/3/10, Harold M. Goldner <[email protected]> wrote:
> The technology highway is littered with the carcasses of companies that
> couldn't sustain their business model.  Northgate, one of the early IBM
> cloners, made keyboards that are among the finest (I still have two of
> them), gone.  Quarterdeck, who made the miniscule amounts of memory we used
> to have available to us do amazing things, gone.  Central Point Software,
> who made PC utilities that nobody else had before everybody else started
> making them, swallowed up.  AST, WordPerfect Corporation, Samna Word,
> Commodore, Osborne, need I go on?

Compaq which got swallowed by HP, Digital which got swallowed by Compaq, etc...

so if webOS isn't going to live on in smartphones, and instead will be
in connected devices, what kind of connected devices is this guy
referencing? Printers (as he mentioned)? Refrigerators? Dryers?

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