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Oct 14, 2026 · Industry Insights

Boston Dynamics: From Demo King to $1.3B Loss — Why the Pioneer Couldn't Sell Robots

Boston Dynamics, once the viral robot demo leader, accumulated $1.3B losses over five years under Hyundai after three ownership changes, as its hydraulic hardware and hand-crafted control algorithms proved too costly and fragile against China's mass-produced electric actuators and reinforcement learning pipelines.

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Boston Dynamics: From Demo King to $1.3B Loss — Why the Pioneer Couldn't Sell Robots
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Radish, Keep Going!
Oct 11, 2026 · Industry Insights

How Apple Newton's $3M Gamble Created the ARM Empire Behind iPhone

The article traces Apple Newton's 1993 launch as a mocked PDA, its desperate $3M investment creating ARM low-power chips, Palm Pilot's pragmatic Graffiti input beating Newton, Jobs killing Newton in 1998, and how ARM chips later powered iPod, iPhone, and 350B+ devices, turning Newton's failure into a semiconductor empire.

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How Apple Newton's $3M Gamble Created the ARM Empire Behind iPhone
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Radish, Keep Going!
Oct 8, 2026 · User Experience Design

Why Mac Trackpads Feel Better: Force Touch, Taptic Engine & Windows' Catch-Up

This article analyzes why Mac trackpads outperform Windows counterparts, tracing Apple's 2009 Force Touch patent, Taptic Engine haptics, macOS system-level gesture handling, and Windows' Precision Touchpad spec, while noting recent haptic trackpads from Sensel and Boréas narrowing the gap on flagship Windows laptops.

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Why Mac Trackpads Feel Better: Force Touch, Taptic Engine & Windows' Catch-Up
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Radish, Keep Going!
Oct 6, 2026 · User Experience Design

Why QWERTY Still Rules: The Hidden Costs of Better Input Methods

This article examines why technically superior keyboard layouts like Dvorak, chord keyboards, Dasher, and Graffiti failed to displace QWERTY, revealing that switching costs, cognitive compromise limits, and network effects outweigh raw efficiency in human-computer interaction.

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Why QWERTY Still Rules: The Hidden Costs of Better Input Methods
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Radish, Keep Going!
Oct 4, 2026 · Industry Insights

How a $500K Patent Built a $3B Empire — And Why It Collapsed

An Wang sold his magnetic core memory patent to IBM for $500,000, founded Wang Laboratories, grew it to $3 billion with word processors and minicomputers, but lost it all due to dual-class stock, heavy debt, an incompatible PC, and a failed succession — not simply because he missed the PC revolution.

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How a $500K Patent Built a $3B Empire — And Why It Collapsed
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Radish, Keep Going!
Oct 2, 2026 · Industry Insights

Minitel: France's Pre-Web Internet That Died by Its Own Meter

France's Minitel network served 25 million users with 9 million terminals a decade before the World Wide Web, but its per-minute billing model and closed architecture ultimately caused its decline against the open, unmetered web, leading to its 2012 shutdown despite 810,000 terminals still active.

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Minitel: France's Pre-Web Internet That Died by Its Own Meter
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Radish, Keep Going!
Oct 1, 2026 · Industry Insights

How a 6-Week OS Became the Foundation of Microsoft's Empire

Tim Paterson wrote QDOS in six weeks for Seattle Computer Products, implementing a novel FAT file system and CP/M-compatible API from public manuals; Microsoft licensed then bought it, turning it into PC-DOS for IBM, sparking decades of disputes over originality.

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How a 6-Week OS Became the Foundation of Microsoft's Empire
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Radish, Keep Going!
Sep 30, 2026 · Industry Insights

Gary Kildall's CP/M: The First PC OS That Lost to 'Plain Theft'

Gary Kildall created CP/M, the first widely adopted microcomputer OS with a hardware-abstracting BIOS layer, but after failed IBM negotiations, Microsoft cloned its API from Kildall's public manual to build MS-DOS, which Kildall called 'plain and simple theft,' leading to CP/M's decline despite its foundational influence on modern OS design.

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Gary Kildall's CP/M: The First PC OS That Lost to 'Plain Theft'