The following story provides an interesting analysis of what happened in the PC wars and what is happening today in the mobile wars. To a limited extent the author tends to agree with Bert and Kon, who argue that the open nature of the PC platform led to its dominance:
The second is the story of how Apple Computer, Inc. refused to license its innovative new operating system to other hardware makers in the early days of the PC revolution and ended up ceding the market to Microsoft, which licensed its operating system far and wide.
The article is fairly long, so I;ll let those who are interested click through...
http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2010/08/can-you-buy-me-now.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Can you buy me now? Apple and the war for the mobile market Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org
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