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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 01:22 AM EDT |
Apple do the browser restriction thing too and it's really annoying. Not sure
it's abuse of monopoly though (although forcing IE on people is probably abuse
of consumer!) - tactics like this won't help MS get market share, it'll probably
be quite the opposite.
One thing to understand though - Windows on ARM is not conventional Windows or
Win32 - it has about as much in common with "windows" as WP7 does.
The WinRT API currently has no significant market share - and may very well stay
that way given how terrible Metro on a desktop is. There's nothing to
"leverage" - existing windows software is not compatible with WoA,
period (it's not trivial to port either - it's quite a different runtime, by no
means just a recompile or anything).
Ignoring that though, let's assume that x86 PCs, smartphones and tablets are all
the same market (which is becoming increasingly the case). Does Microsoft have
a monopoly? Not really - smartphones are outselling PCs, and MS have about a 0%
(to about 7 significant digits!) market share there.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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