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Yeah, it's weird. Like when Joe Frazier or George Foreman come up in Ali discussions. Or when you talk Larry Bird, inevitably Magic Johnson comes up. Or when you talk about NES, someone brings up Sega.

Oh wait it's because those things are narratively, intrinsically connected because of the compelling nature of rivalry as it turns out that is not weird at all.

Even more phenomenologically interesting is that everyone leaves out Larry Ellison.

The two are inescapably linked. Ali and Frazier. Magic and Bird. DiMaggio and Williams. We'll spend the next few decades putting them in context with each other.

I don't think it's shoehorning as much as it is Bill Gates & Steve Jobs being yinyang.