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BTW...there is already "vendor lock in" with text books. When a school system (or state) picks a text book. That's it. Parents can't go out and shop for the text book of their choice. Nor would we want them to.
Which of us has ever cared what tools those publishers choose to make their books? I bet you Adobe has a near monopoly position.
And what do you mean "we don't know" if there'd be a tablet market without Apple? 2 years ago there was no tablet market to speak of. Then Apple announces the iPad, and the folks decrying the iPad today were saying that "nobody needs a device between a computer and a smart phone". Oh...it's too expensive. Doesn't do anything. Doesn't have this or that port...yadda yadda.
Then when Apple succeeds in selling millions of iPads....NOW there's a tablet market and everyone and his brother is putting out tablets.
Lee
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