[crayz]

As Moore's law marches on, it's inevitable that the computing power needed by Joe Sixpack will fit into smaller and smaller packages. The rise of the desktop, then laptop, now netbook. Each iteration takes less time than the previous one. That asymptote will soon - a few years at the outside - hit the iPhone/PDA form factor

Apple must understand this, and they can't possibly believe they'll be allowed to maintain this sort of dictatorial control over people's primary general computing platform

[cpr]

Why not? They're certainly going to try, and they're winning so far.

Maybe our generally-accepted notions of what should succeed in the market is wrong.