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"HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius compared the exchanges to Apple products. The tech company doesn't just abandon its products if they have glitches - it improves them with updates, she pointed out to health care reporters yesterday. "No one is calling on Apple to not sell devices for a year or two or get out of the business because the whole thing is a failure. Everybody assumes [if] there's a problem, [Apple will] fix it and move on." [^].

That's U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sibelius, speaking of the roll-out of ObamaCare.

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"Hello, you have reached the products and services dispatch center 2.3 beta: our monitors show your respirator is running an outdated version of iOS; we can be of assistance to you by first helping you upgrade iOS. If that is convenient, please press #1; if that is not convenient, or this is an emergency, please press #0."

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Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview

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