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I see. Your comment at the end about the link-bait title seemed out of place with the rest of your post. If that was your main point, then the irrelevant bit
by pohl 16y ago
I see. Your comment at the end about the link-bait title seemed out of place with the rest of your post. If that was your main point, then the irrelevant bit about the iPhone and the blurring with tablets really distracted from it.
Perhaps you thought the word 'fad' in the headline was drawn from the 2007 Bill Gates quotation? I didn't read it that way at all.
Rather, to me it came off as a shorter Mundie, and an entirely uncontroversial paraphrase of what he said. He was savvy enough to avoid the word 'fad' in his statement, but he casted enough doubt on the longevity of tablets to invoke the spectre of the 2007 quotation by Gates.
Edit: I like the distillation of your point below, and find it vote-worthy. +1
- saurik 16y agoThe user who posted this to HN decided to use the title "Commentary on Microsoft's stand that Tablets are a passing fad"; this is an importantly different connotation than "Microsoft: Tablets are a passing fad", which was the actual title of the article being linked to. The former's usage of the word "stance" is much more direct: it implies that Microsoft has officially made firm statements on this matter. Instead, you get to the article and read commentary (no matter how well informed or interesting; I do not wish to comment on that) about "mixed messages" from the guy who runs Microsoft Research.