[jeffdavis]

"In some sense, the market for them has been disappearing."

Agreed! That's what I thought the keynote would be about before I began watching. Users cared about general purpose computers before, because the only way you could accomplish a task was to run it on your own computer. Now, the thin clients are essentially here, and the ability to run an arbitrary program is not very important to many people.

Or so they think, anyway. I'm worried about the point where devices at home are not Turing-complete, and they just connect to authorized services. Only certain companies would really have the ability to program anything at all (because they'd be the only ones with real computers), and it would be easy for the government to step in and control them.

[stcredzero]

How about government registration for general-purpose computers? (I do not support that idea. Rather, it is the next step in this line of reasoning.)