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Re:The iPhone's new chip should worry Intel by madeofpalk on Sunday September 18, 2016 @10:11AM (#12525366)
In this hypothetical situation Microsoft doesnt make the stupid move of requiring all apps go through their store which imposes its own limitations (like sandboxing).

Mind you, it would be a completely insane move for Apple (or Microsoft) and I can't see them doing this any time soon. It would be absolute suicide.

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Re:The iPhone's new chip should worry Intel by pjmlp on Sunday September 18, 2016 @11:47AM (#12525733)
Except there are no alternatives for those that sell software, as I mentioned on my comment FOSS users don't pay for desktop software.
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Re:The iPhone's new chip should worry Intel by madeofpalk on Sunday September 18, 2016 @07:03PM (#12527646)
There's all the ways people sell software on Microsoft platforms.

Adobe has managed to get thousands from users without any 'help' from Microsoft.

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Re:The iPhone's new chip should worry Intel by pjmlp on Monday September 19, 2016 @01:28AM (#12529163)
How is Adobe going to do it when Windows follows the same footsteps than Mac OS X?

The only way will be the store, or why do you think Microsoft is making it easy to port Win32/WPF (legacy) applications to the store model?

When the applications that matter like Adobe are on the store, and Apple has proven the "my way or the highway" works, they will slowly disable the "legacy" model.

I have been through enough computing changes to believe this will indeed happen.

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