>>>But I assumed that since you chose to believe them you had some independent corroboration.
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>IDC claims to be independent. I agree with much but not all of what they say. I quoted them because a certain person tried to personalize the issue and I felt it important to show that this extends well beyond ad hominem sniping in a UT thread.
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>IMHO the best thing now is to review in a year. If any of us can be bothered.
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>Just so you know, IME when this debate occurs in professional forums it usually moves quickly to content creation vs content consumption. The PC has a distinct advantage in content creation- until stuff like the speech-to-text app I mentioned comes along, at which point whole market segments can switch almost overnight. Mobile's advantage is that it is fighting in foreign fields: its own status as a telephony device hardly is threatened by the PC so the entire maneuver is on PC turf. IMHO "content creation" is the one to watch. And on that note, I'm off to Boca Raton to look at the sea and do some useful work. ;-)
Just found the IDC website so I'll read up.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
