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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Windows is not a closed system. Only the source code is, but you can use it with software from many sources. I mean walled garden systems such as iOS. It became very big because at the time it was the only one of it's kind, but it's sagging under the sheer weight of the choice of Android. Eventually, this will happen with Kindle too. In the end, there will be just too much epub.
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I must respectfully disagree. Amazon dominates the English-language eBook market; many authors report over 90% of their sales occur at Amazon. There are certainly a lot of different ePub devices, but their actual market
share, combined, is less than that of Amazon. Given the self-destruction of B&N (Amazon's only serious rival in the US market), I can see nothing but an increase of market share for Amazon in the foreseeable
future.
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Unix was there, long before Windows. And yes, Unix, or it's cousin Linux will be here after Windows is utterly gone. You may not know, but Windows is big only on desktops and laptops. *Everything else*, from embedded systems to phones to supercomputers, basically runs a Unix-like system such as Linux, a free Unix descendant such as FreeBSD, or a paid version of Unix such as AIX. All the rest (Windows servers) are just exceptions by comparison.
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I've been in the IT business for close to 30 years, so yes, I am familiar with the marketplace. About 35% of web servers run Windows Server, while almost 50% of server sales revenue is Windows Server (
Source). Windows Server is not quite so insignificant as you suggest
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