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____/ Peter Köhlmann on Monday 11 August 2008 11:58 : \____
> Mark Kent wrote:
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> < snip >
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>> The desktop is dead.
>
> Bullshit
It's a gradual thing and an overstatement, for sure.
See the A$$ociated Press article (intentionally no link) that reports on
decline of desktop in Japan. There was a study.
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| I would suggest that the open source community should stop obsessing
| with the battle for the desktop, and start focusing on the battle for
| the platform that will replace it. As I have said before, the day
| will soon come when the notion of having to go to a particular
| machine on a particular room every time you need access to
| information or computer power will be as obsolete as the notion
| of having to go to the hand pump over the well in the front
| yard every time you need water.
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http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/02/after-desktop-what.html
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