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   From: znu@fake.invalid   
      
   In article ,   
    Chris Ahlstrom  wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:   
   >   
   > > I mean, seriously?   
   >   
   > Microsoft will simply co-opt the ARM tablet market through sweet-seeming OEM   
   > deals and some plain old browbeating, push the hardware to become more and   
   > more powerful, and larger and larger, until it moves out of the tablet   
   > arena, thus all but killing the market.  Just like it did with the small   
   > netbooks.   
      
   The reason that approach worked with netbooks is because netbooks really   
   were just small, cheap laptops. Once they got a little more powerful   
   (which was just a natural consequence of technological development), the   
   regular version of Windows, as an OS suitable for use on laptops, was   
   suitable for use on netbooks, and crushed alternatives with which users   
   were less familiar and which had inferior application compatibility.   
      
   Tablets are a different story, because traditional desktop UI provides   
   an inferior user experience on tablet devices, when compared with UI   
   actually designed for touch interaction. As a consequence, standard   
   versions of Windows are _not_ especially suitable for tablets, making it   
   much harder for Microsoft to subsume the tablet market into the desktop   
   PC operating system ecosystem that they largely control.   
      
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   anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it   
   must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -- John Maynard Keynes   
      
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