I do like a well-turned simile*

[lproven]

Never mind the tired old "operating systems as airlines" one. Been done to death. I like this one:

It will be interesting to see how things turn out; mobiles in 2007 are looking a lot like computers in 1984:
• Palm OS is the new CP/M, a bit past its prime as a holdover from the last decade.
• Windows Mobile is the new DOS, struggling to clone and conquer yesterday's standard.
• Apple's OS X is the new Mac, an intelligent rethinking of how things should work.
• Linux is the new Amiga, a tinker fantasy that will ultimately go nowhere until it finds a driver.
• Symbian is the new Unix: the commercial standard currently powering the majority of mobiles.

(From RDM here.)

Roughly Drafted "magazine" is a sort of one-man tech comment site. Dan Eran Dilger is sometimes infuriating, sometimes absolutely bang on the nail as I see it, but usually stimulating to read. I hate the site layout - it's all autogenerated by iWeb, I think, URLs and all, and it's a mess and doesn't zoom well or display nicely on Firefox. But one can cope.

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* Even if it is a snowclone...