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   From: ahlstromc@xzoozy.com   
      
   Flint wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   No, they're not, Lying Larry.  They're a niche market, maybe 20% of all   
   sales of portable *computers*.   
      
   You were the liar who also quoted and raved about Microsoft's lie about 96%   
   of all netbooks shipped in the U.S. were shipping with Windows XP.   
      
   >>    
   >> 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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