>>>I've heard about the death of Windows and Microsoft before.
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>Those are your words, not what I said at all.
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>>>Should it ever happen, I'll go with Apple long before Android
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>You may not have much choice. Whiteware is going to have a cheaper Raspberry Pi in it before we know it. What OS does it run? We won't care. The fascination with platform is over and barring some catastrophic event or a sudden interest by Western youth in one of the Chinese OS, Android has won.

But the backend, if local is not over by a long shot: there are the phone routers adding USB storage, NAS servers from ARM over Atom to current Pentiums, media servers running Linux or Windows, "real" server backends where Win and Linux duke it put again but Linux has numbers in favor...