XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: znu@fake.invalid   
      
   In article ,   
    Chris Ahlstrom  wrote:   
      
   > ZnU wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:   
   >   
   > > In article <1lkov7-kdf.ln1@sky.matrix>, Homer    
   > > wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:   
   > >> > ZnU wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:   
   > >>   
   > >> >> 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)   
   > >>   
   > >> Rubbish. It was a consequence of being pressured to support Microsoft's   
   > >> bloatware.   
   > >   
   > > This makes no sense. Had consumers not wanted netbooks with Windows,   
   > > they simply wouldn't have bought them. Netbook hardware got more   
   > > powerful to accommodate Windows because consumers wanted Windows   
   > > netbooks, as a consequence of netbooks being similar enough to laptops   
   > > that Microsoft's advantages in the traditional desktop OS market were   
   > > relevant in the netbook market.   
   >   
   > Not quite, ZnU.  Roughly 30% of people chose Linux netbooks even after   
   > Microsoft got into the market.  Microsoft simply quashed them at the   
   > vendor choke point.   
      
   Look, if you check my ~13 years of posting history (particularly the   
   years when US v. Microsoft was going on), you'll see I'm quite aware of   
   Microsoft's history of dirty tricks. But I really think you guys are   
   seeing a conspiracy where none exists. Most consumers choose Windows   
   because it's what they know and there are lots of apps for it. Given   
   that netbooks are nothing but small, inexpensive laptops, and consumers   
   were already mostly choosing Windows on laptops, why _wouldn't_ they   
   mostly choose Windows on netbooks once netbooks became powerful enough   
   to run it?   
      
   --   
   "The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to   
   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   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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