23rd March 2010, 8:20 PM
The consumer's opinion of what is and isn't a new piece of hardware is of infinite more importance than whatever the company making it WISHES we would think of it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)