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Jobs was deeply cynical about ebooks, claiming early on that Kindle would fail because “people don’t read anymore”[0].

There’s some level of irony in the fact that the most successful product from the guy who wanted to build a “bicycle of the mind”[1] ended up being something more like the floating chairs in Wall E.

0 - https://www.wired.com/2008/01/steve-jobs-peop/

1 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuP8gsgWb8



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