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Off topic note here: Apple forecasts a "logarithmic leap". I have never heard that term. Logarithmic growth is sub linear and doesn't seem like something akin to a leap. Usually you would go with "exponential". Just seemed like odd wording.


Logarithmic growth is a more accurate description of the actual growth and on a limited interval grows faster than linearly.

It's symbolic of the typical winner-take-all markets in the IT sphere, unlike the term exponential, which is constantly misused and inaccurate in most cases (except, perhaps, for Moore's law on a limited time interval)


Well they weren't wrong, growth leveled off to nothing. More a reverse logarithmic graph.




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