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From: znu@fake.invalid
In article ,
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> 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.
I still don't understand how you this "co-opting" works. You seem to
believe that Microsoft has some ability to introduce products that
nobody really wants to buy, and force people to buy them anyway. What
mechanism do they use? And if they have such an ability, why have their
efforts met with so little success in so many markets (music players,
online music sales, search engines, smartphones, etc.) over the years?
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