Device makers try to speed things up by anticipating what we are trying to write and offering solutions, often with vexing or comical results (obscene examples abound at Damn You, Autocorrect).

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Not surprisingly, the differences between them and their American counterparts are vast and present both challenges and opportunities for global marketers. (In fact, the findings were so intriguing and vital to success in China that we decided to write a book.) What follows below are some of the key findings.

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And if we believe what we used to write about Jobs, the chances are the new team will be wrong footed and will make poor decisions somewhere down the line.

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Now, with Kickstarter and fan funding, they are the ones paying for it so we going to let them tell us what they want before we even write one line of code.

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"We rely on them, we seek their favour, we live, we die politically because of what they write and what they show and sometimes that means we are not courageous or spineful enough to stand up when wrong has occurred, " he said.

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"So what we normally do is write problems on the board and the children read, this is what we are doing in a bid to ensure that children learn, " Ndlovu adds.

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