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[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cute, they thought that it would only grow in one dimension while in reality it did in two.

[–] [email protected] 152 points 11 months ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They couldn't predict that he wouldn't be around any more by 2012.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

I guess people thought "the genius Steve Jobs" wouldn't go a homeopathic route to treat his actually treatable pancreatic cancer

It's so incredibly rare to have a treatable version of pancreatic cancer, normally it's a guaranteed death sentence.

Also he got a liver transplant because having access to a private plane meant he could be on all the lists. Only bought him like another year though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

2016: iFloor
2018: iPiazza
2020: iField
2022: iPrairie
2024: iVeldt

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

How have I never seen this lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The Iboard is just a touchscreen Mac.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Reality is disappointing.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

But it also shrank in a third.