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The Death of Europe's Last Electronics Giant

• neverminder 4y ago
  Another one to the list of great historic ironies - Philips, the company which kickstarted TSMC and ASML is now a dying dinosaur.
• Gravityloss 4y ago
  https://cdn.geckoandfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/smartphone-replaced.jpg https://cdn.geckoandfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/smart... Retro dressed man holding camcorder and boombox. Next to him are a Walkman, VCR, typewriter, calculator, video and C cassettes and CD:s. Below the text "20 years later and all these things fit in your pocket"
  • AlbertoGP 4y ago
    Good point, but not completely accurate: the speakers and the typewriter (both the keyboard and the printer components) do not fit in a pocket with the same performance. And if we consider that “fit in your pocket” probably means a smartphone (file name: smartphone-replaced.jpg), both keyboard¹ and printer are missing completely. ¹ I know rare exceptions exist, and own some of those phones with keyboards which are still not as effective as a full-size keyboard.
    • Gravityloss 4y ago
      On average, everything got worse, but more convenient.