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Bill Gates vs General Motors

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Alpha Souleymane Diallo

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Apr 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/17/98
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Let's be away from Kaporo-Rails for a while and have fun:

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the
computer industry with the auto industry and stated " If GM had kept up
with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving
twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000mi/gal." General Motors recently
addressed this comment by releasing the statement "Yes, but would you want
your car to crash twice a day?", and offered the following comparisons:

1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a
new car.
2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you
would just accept this, restart the car and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and
fail and you would have to reinstall the whole engine. For some strange
reason, you would accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you
bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy and install
more seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was perfectly
reliable, ran five times faster, and was twice as easy to drive, but would
only run on 5% of the roads.
6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to
their cars which would make their cars run much slower, and begin to
crash.
7. The red "oil", "gas" and "alternator" warning lights would be
replaced by a single blue "general protection fault" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butts.
9. The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before going off.
10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what caused it,
or what you can do to prevent subsequent crashes from occurring in the
future.

What do you think about that?

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