I bought my mom a Chromebook Pixel and everything is so much better now

This is The Divergence, a weekly column from The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, exploring the spaces around modern technology.

My mother loves Steve Jobs so much she got a little teary when I gave her a Chromebook Pixel for Christmas. She didn't open the box for almost 10 minutes, because the idea of having a tech product that didn't come from Jobs bothered her so much.

It's not Apple that my mother reveres; it's Jobs. She's a physician who cried when she read the Walter Isaacson biography because she was so frustrated that Jobs didn't seek medical treatment sooner. And she has stubbornly hung on to her iPhone 5S even though it's obvious that a larger-screened phone would be better-suited to her needs; she's cranked up...

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via The Verge
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