>>>It still matters a lot because serious lockins still exist.
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>Yep. In a world of IT commodity, niches will persist just as OS/2 niches persisted for a decade... but without the huge rump of generalized IT taxpayers to support it, the "center cannot hold" against other vendors earning a bomb from smartphone sales or advertising.
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>>>CAD or Quark on a tablet?
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>How about a 21" Android desktop? Announced by HP last week, expected price $399. It also runs Splashtop so you can run Windows apps on it until it no longer matters.
Did I miss something on Splashtop? I use it on my m ASUS transformer tablet, but it is just a way to remote in to a Windows box. I am not running a windows app on my tablet. Without a Windows box to remote in to there is no app to run.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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