Less glib: you didn't just need to ship, you needed to ship a new vision for a platform. The shortcuts muddied the waters until nobody could see the vision, and, all else equal, nobody wants more platforms to support.
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How is this controversial?! Of course people will still browse the web from their work computers. The analogy to horse drawn carriages is absurd.
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To say nothing of the fact that plenty of web apps will be written primarily for desktop, enabling users to do their jobs from the desktop. Billing reconciliation, payroll, etc. Myopic to imagine people shifting *all* their web usage to the 5" screens they carry in their pocket
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Have you ever visited an emerging market?
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Then the reality of huge %s — often 100% — of computing going mobile for a billion users may not make sense.
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Are you typing on a desktop or a phone right now?
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Desktop, believe it or not!
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