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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: The 10 Worst Smartphones Of All Time
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 10:20:29 -0700
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On 2024-05-01 10:19, News wrote:
> On 5/1/2024 12:30 PM, Alan wrote:
>> On 2024-05-01 09:15, News wrote:
>>> On 5/1/2024 12:09 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>> On 2024-05-01 06:55, News wrote:
>>>>> On 4/30/2024 6:16 PM, Tyrone wrote:
>>>>>> On Apr 30, 2024 at 5:47:10 PM EDT, "News" <News@Group.Name> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/30/2024 5:28 PM, Tyrone wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Apr 30, 2024 at 11:07:13 AM EDT, ""badgolferman""
>>>>>>>> <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://www.slashgear.com/798620/the-10-worst-smartphones-of-all-time/
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -- Galaxy Note 7
>>>>>>>>> -- HTC First
>>>>>>>>> -- Amazon Fire Phone
>>>>>>>>> -- Blackberry Storm
>>>>>>>>> -- Kyocera Echo
>>>>>>>>> -- Samsung Galaxy Fold
>>>>>>>>> -- RED Hydrogen One
>>>>>>>>> -- iPhone 6
>>>>>>>>> -- HTC EVO 3D
>>>>>>>>> -- V Mobile N8-N
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Nice list.  8 Android phones, 1 Blackberry and 1 Apple.  Looks 
>>>>>>>> like Apple is
>>>>>>>> doing just fine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No 'worst' WinPhones
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's because they all sucked. It would be impossible to single 
>>>>>> one out of
>>>>>> the huge, ugly mess that was "Windows Phones".
>>>>>
>>>>> Had apps, tiles, and native Office functionality before Jobs stole 
>>>>> them, like he did from Xerox PARC, but what do you know.
>>>>> 1. The first Windows Phone came out more than 3 YEARS after the first 
>>>> iPhone.
>>>>
>>>> 2. When the first Windows Phone was released in October 2010, the 
>>>> iPhone had already had an App Store for more than 2 years.
>>>>
>>>> 3. Jobs didn't steal anything from Xerox PARC, and some of what you 
>>>> THINK was taken from there was actually invented by Apple. 
>>>
>>> Win CE in 2002, but what do you know.
>>
>> "Windows Phones" not "Windows phones".
>>
>> See the capital "P" there now, sunshine?
>>
>> Oh, and when you mentioned "tiles", you were definitely referencing 
>> the later Windows Phone.

And you couldn't deal with any of this, huh?

>>
>>>
>>> Zerox PARC mouse and GUI, but what do you know.
>>
>> 1. The mouse existed PRIOR to PARC and Apple licensed it not from 
>> Xerox, but from SRI International.
>>
>> 2. The GUI that Apple used had many differences from the one at Palo 
>> Alto Research Centre:
>>
>> 'For more than a decade now, I've listened to the debate about where 
>> the Macintosh user interface came from. Most people assume it came 
>> directly from Xerox, after Steve Jobs went to visit Xerox PARC (Palo 
>> Alto Research Center). This "fact" is reported over and over, by 
>> people who don't know better (and also by people who should!). 
>> Unfortunately, it just isn't true - there are some similarities 
>> between the Apple interface and the various interfaces on Xerox 
>> systems, but the differences are substantial.'
>>
>> <https://www.folklore.org/On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.html?sort=date>
>>
>> That's written by Bruce Horn:
>>
>> 'Bruce Lawrence Horn (born 1959[1]) is a programmer. He created the 
>> original Macintosh Finder and the Macintosh Resource Manager for Apple 
>> Computer. His signature is amongst those molded to the case of the 
>> Macintosh 128K. He has been a distinguished engineer at Siri and 
>> Language Technologies at Apple since June 2022.'
> 
> 
> Sure poseur. Go fill some sandbags with your bullshit.

Really?

You won't take the word of Bruce Horn...

....who created the original Finder for the first Mac?

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