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Re:Lessons from the failure of General Magic by jpadkins on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:17PM (#17620602)
> inferior-in-nearly-aspect Palm

worse is better https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

x86 was worse than RISC, Linux worse than BSD, Windows worse than MacOS, etc

Palm got the the things right that mattered to adoption (price, simplicity, data syncing) even if you think Newtown was technically superior. Focusing on technical superiority is a common trap.

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Re:Lessons from the failure of General Magic by LocutusOfBorges on Thursday July 26, 2018 @07:19PM (#17622232)
For anyone less than enthused by that webpage's anti-HN redirect to a photograph of a testicle in an egg cup, here's an archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180322163944/https://www.jwz.o...

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