The Black Hole......

One lazy afternoon day a turtle was swimming happily along a lake.

As the turtle was nearing land he heard a scorpion hail it from the muddy shore. A scorpion, being a very poor swimmer, asked the turtle if he would carry him on his back across the lake.

The turtle thought it was the craziest thing he ever heard, “Why would I carry you on my back?” he boomed, ‘You’ll sting me while I’m swimming and I’ll drown.”

“My dear turtle friend,” laughed the scorpion, “if I were to sting you, you would drown and I would go down with you and drown as well. Now where is the logic in that?”

The turtle pondered this for a moment, and eventually saw the logic in the scorpion’s statement. “You’re right!” said the turtle with a smile. “Hop on!” So the scorpion climbed aboard and the turtle started paddling.

Halfway across the lake the scorpion gave the turtle a big sting. As they both sank into the water the turtle turned to the scorpion “Why did you sting me? Now we are both going to drown, where is the logic in that?”

“It has nothing to do with logic” the scorpion replied, “I am a scorpion, it’s just my nature.”

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Well, looks like ESS will lose a big customer sooner rather than later. Hope they didn’t have all their eggs in the phone basket, as they never really had a shot at competing with Cirrus and Qualcomm in the higher volume segments.

LG says it might quit the smartphone market | Ars Technica

Hopefully this is a lesson that gimmicks do not necessarily move phones. If LG exits, it will be unfortunate to lose another vendor.
 
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