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PUSH_AXyesterday at 2:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

Apple is like the Billy Mitchell of computing. Just waited for them to beat it before announcing the gains they were sitting on.


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inigyouyesterday at 2:53 PM

Does this imply they faked all their benchmarks?

aksssyesterday at 6:56 PM

Funny, wasn't getting the reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell_(gamer)

THE (Col.) Billy Mitchell was actually a badass. His time in Alaska alone, running telegraph lines in the wilderness, made him a legend even before his forward thinking during WWI and beyond.