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Repulsion9513 25 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down

> there has been no embrace or extend

Embrace: include SMS

Extend: add iMessage

threeseed 25 days ago [–]

That's not what the phrase means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Repulsion9513 24 days ago | [–]

Embrace: include HTML

Extend: add ActiveX

Yeah, it is.

endemic 24 days ago | | [–]

Could users still access functionality of pages with ActiveX content, albeit in a “degraded” state?

talldayo 23 days ago | | [–]

Given that it never fully replaced HTML, yes.

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