Apple were indeed well ahead of the curve with the original iPhone and the other manufacturers have been catching up.

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The original theory underlying the Rahn Curve assumed that as the size of government increased from zero, supplying law and order and some basic services, economic growth rates would increase until government reached some optimal size.

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Wayne Shorter seems to have always had that curve in the personality that marks so many of the most original thinkers in music.

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