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clamprecht on June 5, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Autopsy: Lessons from Failed Startups

If Garmin had made the iPhone, I predict it would have failed. Anyone who has ever tried to enter an address into a Garmin GPS knows what I'm talking about. The iPhone keyboard actually worked well (as did the screen, browser, etc).

misterbee on June 6, 2015 [–]

that's because the Garmin screen was resistive, not capacitive, and it was years before autocomplete tech.

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