Word: squish
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This is a deal about brute scale, about huge numbers. For example, if you squish Hotmail (Microsoft's e-mail service) and Yahoo! Mail together, they have 426 million users worldwide; that's compared with Gmail's paltry 90 million. But don't let those huge numbers distract you from two very small ones. First, the number 1: that's where Google stands in the search business and in the online-advertising business, the latter of which--unlike search or e-mail or instant messaging--actually has real dollars attached to it. Second, the number 0. That's how many...
...iPhone shatters two basic axioms of consumer technology. One, when you take an application and put it on a phone, that application must be reduced to a crippled and annoying version of itself. Two, when you take two devices--such as an iPod and a phone--and squish them into one, both devices must necessarily become lamer versions of themselves. The iPhone is a phone, an iPod and a mini-Internet computer all at once, and they all--contrary to basic physics--occupy the same space at the same time, but without taking a hit in performance...
...iPhone breaks two basic axioms of consumer technology. One, when you take an application and put it on a phone, that application must be reduced to a crippled and annoying version of itself. Two, when you take two devices-such as an iPod and a phone-and squish them into one, both devices must necessarily become lamer versions of themselves. The iPhone is a phone, an iPod, and a mini-Internet computer all at once, and contrary to Newton-who knew a thing or two about apples-they all occupy the same space at the same time, but without taking...
...squish in the back corner two nights in a row,” said Frank J. Herrmann ’06, an Eliot resident and Harvard baseball player...
...With the X-box games console, Microsoft has entered an arena of giants like Sony and Nintendo who will not lie down and die; Redmond may well get its butt kicked here. Back in the software division, the only attempts to squish competitors are through ineffectual press releases. Heck, they're even using open source software these days...