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		oblio on Oct 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go iPhone killed the iPad. Netflix streaming killed Netflix DVDs-by-mail. Azure-cross-platform-support-is-king is sort-of killing Windows-only-tools. It's still super hard to do, but every CEO post-2000 has read the innovator's dilemma and you can see that in their actions.

filereaper on Oct 18, 2021 [–]

>iPhone killed the iPad. I think you meant iPod here.

ipaddr on Oct 19, 2021 | [–]

Both would apply. The iPod in the late 2000s and somewhat later the iPhone got bigger screens and killed the iPad craze.

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