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Tony Swash on Thu 26th Apr 2012 17:34 UTC in reply to "RE[3]:
Why Steve hates android" Tony Swash Member since:  That alone
earns the Prada a place in history. The touch era started not
with the iPhone, but with the Prada - which was a massively
successful phone.  No it didn't, because no one copied the
Prada. It was an evolutionary dead end. It had no descendants.
Real evolution is full of examples like this. Full of examples
of ecosystems pregnant with the possibility of a major new
mutation, one that could lead to endless derivative forking
mutations and ones that will thus change the ecosystem. But
there are also plenty of examples of botched mutations,
mutations that take the pregnant possibilities and express them
a way that is an evolutionary dead end, in a way that leads no
where.  The Prada was an evolutionary dead end because nobody
copied it. Nobody. Nobody was inspired by it to redesign their
phones. Nobody. Nobody changed their produ