Comments on: When the PC is a Toaster http://www.slashgear.com/when-the-pc-is-a-toaster-1073608/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 17:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: turn_self_off http://www.slashgear.com/when-the-pc-is-a-toaster-1073608/#comment-61869 turn_self_off Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:08:36 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=73608#comment-61869 the trick i guess is to make it clear that there is a market for both, and that they need to be able to talk to each other in a open manner.

sadly, the success of iphone, and the app store model, have brought out app stores for just about every platform (with mixed levels of “lockdown”).

end result may well be a increasingly segmented computing market, with only the web between them. And even there things can go pear shaped if apple or some other company tries to pull what microsoft and netscape tried back in the day, with lip service and proprietary extensions to the html standard.

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