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Parent was referring to Windows on desktops and laptops

• vetinari 10y ago
  If he meant PC-compatibles, that's even worse. Desktops and laptops have something common: BIOS or UEFI, which standardize both boot process and plaform services, and enumerable buses like PCI. Nothing of this sort is available for ARM/Sparc/whatever boards. It's like criticizing Windows, that it doesn't run on Chromebooks or PPC Macs.
  • emodendroket 10y ago
    I'm not a systems programmer, much less a hardware designer, but it seems to me like if it has been done once it can be done again.
    • vetinari 10y ago
      The issue is not whether it is possible or not. Of course, it is possible. The issue is whether it will result in better product, where better is defined as "will it sell more?". Your average cellphone buyer does not care about that. But he cares about thinness and battery life, which would be affected by a more universal platform. Imagine a 3D chart, where one axis is battery life and small-sized hardware, second is versatility, third showing the sales, with a curve going through, showing a compromise between two trade-offs and total sales for that compromise. We are currently in one point, with few people arguing to change the position to another point, completely ignoring these two other axes.