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On Applications, OSes, and VMs

March 18, 2009 at 6:31 pm | In Technology | No Comments
by Chris Davenport

I’ve lately begun to realize that when a common problem shows up, it’s often the symptom of something else. Such as when customers complain about the amount of rBGH in their food, manufacturers can decide to avoid it, not avoid it, or, and more intelligently, create two products and sell to everyone.

Writing about how my less savvy family members are terrified of anyone touching their computer, for fear of damaging the stuff they use, I got thinking about the problem that their issues are showing exists. Because applications do have that problem.

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