>>>>>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.
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>>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.
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>Good question, Charles, and what local peripherals can you plug into the Android Desktop and what control will you have over them?
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>Are the manufacturers supplying Android drivers for things like printers, cameras and scanners?
>That would be pretty cool if they did.
I think Android drivers for peripherals won't be a problem- I have Epson printer drivers on my tablet. But I wanted to be clear that AFAIK there is no emulator in Android to actually run Windows apps or something like that thing they have on Macs to run what is esentially a Windows VM.
Charles Hankey
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