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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 10:37:56 -0700
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On 2024-05-01 10:21, News wrote:
> KB BS artist. His specialty.

Gibberish: your specialty.

> 
> 
> On 5/1/2024 1:20 PM, Alan wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>> LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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