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Donkeys, Horses and Zebras, Oh my!

In the last week there have been a bunch of posts talking about mobile and whether it is here yet and if it is really needed in work. On the one side you have the Editor/Publisher/blogger, Henry Blodget, who shows the cubicle photo with desktops and laptops and big screen monitors (to be fair it is a newsroom) who complains that Mobile screens are too small and they are for consumption only. On the other side you have the blogger/consultant, Benjamin Robbins, who has decided to go mobile only for an entire year and creates and consumes on his device. The problem is that they’re both trying to figure out whether we have moved from donkeys to horses when they’re really looking at a Zebra.

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