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Chris Ahlstrom stated in post igcaob$asl$10@news.eternal-september.org on
1/9/11 5:49 AM:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> In message , Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> But they haven???t been able to do that so far. Remember ARM has been around
>> for 20-something years, and Microsoft???s ongoing Windows Mobile failures
>> aren???t much younger than that. They simply cannot control the ARM market;
>> if
>> they could, they would have done so already.
>
> They don't have to control the ARM market, just the tablet market.
>
> As ZnU noted, Microsoft's current bulky tablets are mostly ignored. But they
> don't kill the laptop market, because hitherto the tablet market was
> considered niche.
>
> Apple's iPad definitely has changed that, and Android is helping seed an
> even bigger tablet market. If Microsoft had been ready, they'd be actively
> co-opting it right now.
Good to see you acknowledge the importance of a non-Linux source. For the
most part I agree: Apple pretty much re-defined the tablet market. Assuming
Google and others are not just copying Apple and taking their work, I am all
for there being competition... in fact, I think it is a great thing. It
will push prices down for consumers and increase the speed of innovation.
The downside is features will be pushed out without being as well thought
out or tested by most players - including Apple and Google. But that will
shake out over time.
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