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		JulianMorrison on Sept 18, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Next Generation Bends Over > Mint is now going to die. Doesn't always work that way (NeXT, Apple).

whopa on Sept 18, 2009 [–]

Apple is an outlier. Intuit is not.

billswift on Sept 19, 2009 | [–]

"Outlier" just means it's a statistical oddity; anything can become an outlier, sometimes very quickly, if things change the right way.

whopa on Sept 19, 2009 | | [–]

Sure, but citing an outlier as an example as something that could happen isn't really meaningful, since it is so improbable.

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