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Re:Doctorow: Why I won't buy an iPad by mishmash on Friday April 02, 2010 @02:25PM (#1237128)
No, you have a point about open systems in general, to which I agree wholeheartedly, I simply referring to consumer-facing devices.

And if the consumer really wanted an open system, again Linux on the desktop (Ubuntu?) should be have much more market share than it does.

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Re:Doctorow: Why I won't buy an iPad by JulianMorrison on Friday April 02, 2010 @03:10PM (#1237249)
The consumer doesn't have to want an open system. The importance is that they're there, keeping the others honest.
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Re:Doctorow: Why I won't buy an iPad by papachito on Friday April 02, 2010 @06:13PM (#1237717)
> And if the consumer really wanted an open system, again Linux on the desktop (Ubuntu?) should be have much more market share than it does.

Not really, the thing is that MS has a monopoly on the desktop, hard to reverse that trend. Look at Apple, even with their billions of dollars in revenue, they only get 5% of the desktop, Linux is at 1-2% with $0 in campaigning, so not that bad really.

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