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basseyy1 said:

For heaven's sake, this girl would not have called an ambulance for "mom" because she's an Australian girl, and we don't say "mom" here, we say "mum". 

So I guess it was a good thing the mom was doing the calling via Siri, rather than the toddler.

antonpablo said:

It doesn't help that the new iPhones looks exactly like last year's and 3-4 years ago. Not a lot compelling reasons to upgrade.

Yeah, a '65 Porsche 911 looks pretty much like a '99 Porsche 911sc. No reason at all to upgrade...

Form. Function. Somewhere in there is some difference.

rob53 said:

I've been asking for the return of the Xserve including setting it up as a blade server for years. 

It wasn't that they couldn't do the hardware/software side of servers, it was that they seem to have underestimated the amount of effort and cost of infrastructure required to properly support server products and customers, in relation to the relatively small market returns for doing it right. It was probably better that they dropped the product than bumble along doing it in a half-a$$ed fashion.


(This from conversations with someone who had spent 20+ years in a server-focused company, and left to work the Xserve product at Apple. Briefly.)

tokyojimu said:

Does it really make sense to be serving most of Europe from a small island?

Why? Is it going to wash away? Electrons wear out if they have to travel?

Dang. Make that OpenStep, which replaced NextStep.