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Re:Why Android will win the tablet wars by Pewpewarrows on Monday January 31, 2011 @09:49AM (#2161575)
On that note, customer satisfaction is inherently easier to keep high when you completely control the closed ecosystem. When you only have a select few devices your software can run on, it's much easier to test any changes or a new version you have against them. When you have to deal with thousand, possibly millions of hardware configurations that you need to support, that becomes nearly impossible. Things are destined to fall through the cracks, which reduces average customer satisfaction.

That said, I still think OSX is a better overall OS. But you have to take all the variables into consideration when you discuss things like customer happiness.

Re:Why Android will win the tablet wars by loewenskind on Monday January 31, 2011 @10:07AM (#2161647)
You've just described exactly why I switched to OSX from windows. Less useless choices to make and better likelihood that I wont have to deal with stupid hardware issues.
Re:Why Android will win the tablet wars by archgrove on Monday January 31, 2011 @10:14AM (#2161671)
Indeed. This is exactly why they're unlikely go as "open" as, e.g. Windows with OS X, or Android with iOS. Once they start damaging the "premium" experience they're selling, they lose a key differentiator and will, eventually, slide off into nothing.
Re:Why Android will win the tablet wars by andyzaharia on Monday January 31, 2011 @09:57AM (#2161599)
Yep, thats a good one