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Originally Posted by pl001
My Surface RT has replaced my laptop for personal use. Work is another matter, but it's a lot closer than people think there too. Heck, there's little work I can actually do on a standalone PC today, almost everything is done through thin clients and VMs. The only thing I use my home PC for now is media storage and streaming. And there are hard drives that can do that by themselves today.
Microsoft is not blind to this, it's why they are still pushing Windows 8/RT so hard.
But back to the topic at hand, I think it is clear that Apple could never be the next Microsoft, because they were never like Microsoft to begin with. They are far less diversified and depend almost exclusively on the fickle consumer market selling premium devices that many people want but few really need. I continue to be amazed at their success, it has been incredible given their limited product portfolio.
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It surprises me to see this last paragraph on a technology forum. None of us need ereaders or computers and calibre. Paper books worked well for thousands of years. I still get my magazine subscriptions on paper, but audio and electronic books, while not really a need, are better for me and many others.