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The problem with Altmans position is that the "just 3 ideas" may be different for each reader in context. The rest of the book is the platform for context. "Flat glass rectange. Use your fingers. Good web browser". There you go, I invented the iPhone in 3 simple ideas. If you'd my short e-book in 2005, you'd have Apple now, right? Altman is not the first reasonably smart person to vastly overestimate their own intelligence. (Ed. might want to check yourself too Matt).

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