| > The two major commercial producers of proprietary operating systems are basically giving away their operating system at this point. Huh? Windows 10 home and pro aren't free? It's true that Apple doesn't charge for upgrades, but they do charge a significant markup - and they will happily sell you a licence to run Os X on a hackintosh although they'll forbid you from doing it in their licence ("non apple hardware"). > Until a business model emerges which challenges this Appstores. Windows, and Os X have app stores. Steam is an appstore. Microsoft and Apple bundle a competitor to steam with the Os. Just because both apple and Ms suck at making/marketing/developing their App stores... Doesn't mean valve don't want to stay in the business... They can't get in on ios, Xbox, ps4, etc. They could probably make an appstore for Android - but I'm guessing they'll just focus on streaming games from the cloud to Android (esp Android TV). With hw support for virtualization, Linux could be the universal runtime - allowing the same game to run on Mac, Windows and Linux... |