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> people who foolishly purchased Be Inc. shares

I disagree with your use of the term 'foolish' in hindsight.

We can imagine an entirely reasonable alternate universe where, by pursuing this 'Internet Appliance' idea, they ended up inventing the formula for what in our universe became the iPad. Apple's success was far from guaranteed at this time too.




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