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"On the whole, people don't want to lug a computer with them to the beach or on a train to while away hours they would rather spend reading the sports or busine
by rwc 12y ago
"On the whole, people don't want to lug a computer with them to the beach or on a train to while away hours they would rather spend reading the sports or business section of the newspaper."
Amusingly self-serving from the NYT.
- nl 12y agoI don't think it really occurred to most writers that a laptop was competition for newspapers back then.
- lotharbot 12y agoI don't think it occurred to writers that a portable computing device would be able to access news article in real time from multiple competing sources. It's not paper-vs-laptop that's the relevant competition, but NYT-vs-WaPo-vs-blogs-vs-... that's the relevant competition.