These phones are really mini computers, about the size of cell phones.
He saw that the companies that made fourteen-inch drives for mainframe computers had been driven out of business by companies that made eight-inch drives for mini computers, and then the companies that made the eight-inch drives were driven out of business by companies that made 5.25-inch drives for PCs.
The first PCs were much less capable than mini-computers and mainframes that were already on the market at the time.
Big east-coast firms such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Data General were self-contained empires that focused on one product, mini-computers.
Foxconn's smaller rival across town became a minor producer of iPhones in 2011 and began making iPad Mini tablet computers last year.
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Now that cellphones are becoming more and more like mini-computers, operators in the U.S and Europe hope we might eventually use them for paying for stuff at the store.
Banks are increasingly moving business out of expensive bricks-and-mortar branches to cash machines, home computers and low-cost mini-branches in supermarkets.
The desktop Apple computers, the iMac and Mac mini, will include a combination of hard disk drives and flash memory called a Fusion drive.
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Similarly, Apple's iPad Mini was a response to rival, smaller tablet computers already on the market, adding to the impression Apple was following, not leading.
But Apple still makes most of its cash from computers, and to extend its product range it introduced the Mac mini at the beginning of the year.
The proof-of-concept computer won't give silicon circuits any threat when it's running at just 0.15Hz and takes up as much space as a mini fridge, but the hope is to dramatically speed up and shrink down future iterations to where there are advanced computers that occupy the same size as real muscles.
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