XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: agent1@section31.org   
      
   On 1/8/2011 10:07 AM, Hadron wrote:   
   > Chris Ahlstrom  writes:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Meanwhile small netbooks are doing just fine with Win 7.   
   >   
   > Ahlstrom, you really should stop talking about things you know noting   
   > about. You sound like an idiot.   
   >   
      
      
   Netbooks initial acceptance was also followed by a much higher rate of   
   return by people suffering buyer's remorse after the 3 day honeymoon   
   was over.  Conversely, the iPad is doing real well.  This only proves   
   there is a market for smaller form factor slates, but I believe that   
   slates will seriously cannibalize the netbook market.   
      
      
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