Coming back to Linux after a couple of years under OSX, it took me less than a week to start loving Unity. Sure it's got its glitches, but no more than anything

Coming back to Linux after a couple of years under OSX, it took me less than a week to start loving Unity. Sure it's got its glitches, but no more than anything else in the open-source UI world. I'm sure I'd react differently, if I hadn't unlearned the X11 worldview beforehand, though. All this to say that Unity makes sense even out of netbooks; but I'd like to address address the final question: "can anyone figure out what the point of netbooks is?" The netbook itself isn't much. It's the first and wrong answer to a legitimate question: "is there some room for something beyond the server and the workstation, which most non-developers would love to have?" The iPad and the iPhone provide much better answers to the same question. What matters is that the question exists, it matters, and although the right answer isn't completely known, every OS company wants to be a key part of it. Remember a few years ago? The key question to Canonical and others was "how to dislodge Microsoft from its monopoly on workstations?". Today it's "are we really sure that MS won't dig itself out of the workstation hole when it falls into irrelevance?", and the debuts of Windows 7 for phones and Windows tablets are encouraging. So they basically bet that there will be some room between Android and Windows for them, which they can claim. It seems worth a shot, especially given Android peculiar understanding of "open". If they manage, they can then try to re-expand back into the workstation market, successfully this time.