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what cheap processors would small firms and mainstream consumers be using today? One possibility is a set of information appliances.
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Peter Zelchenko on 17 Feb 09That is proven, with cell phones, iPods, calculators. More broadly, it can be said that nongenerative appliances coexist with generative devices. It's not so clear whether one subverts the other without a lot of force behind it.
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I'm not convinced of the direction here -- the Brother or Smith-Corona appliance typewriter was supplanted not by a generative product, per se, but by Word Perfect, WordStar, Microsoft Word, and other competitors. No open-system revolution brought this about, only high-stakes competitive market cannibalism. It was not the open programmability of the PC and Mac that inaugurated the market, but the plug-and-play capability of the new product, coupled with the price point.
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dial-up modem
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