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 The Shed | Murphy Simmonds | Mon 8 February 2010
Apple should make a dildo. The fancy pants tech giant behind the iPod, iMac, iPhone and now the upcoming iPad has a knack of making stuff we've successfully ignored for years appear utterly essential. We bimbled around like idiots with an actual cassette player until the iPod came along. We carried a text-only WAP-enabled hunk of plastic guff in our pockets until the iPhone made us drool. And we used a stupid old PC until... well, we still use a stupid old PC because we like it when it breaks. Keeps us on our toes.
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