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nl on April 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: What happened to the laptop computer? (1985)

I don't think it really occurred to most writers that a laptop was competition for newspapers back then.

lotharbot on April 6, 2015 [–]

I don't think it occurred to writers that a portable computing device would be able to access news article in real time from multiple competing sources. It's not paper-vs-laptop that's the relevant competition, but NYT-vs-WaPo-vs-blogs-vs-... that's the relevant competition.

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