I think plenty of people in those segments believed those operating systems would be huge, but they missed by a mile when it came to the form. I remember argui

I think plenty of people in those segments believed those operating systems would be huge, but they missed by a mile when it came to the form. I remember arguing with slashdot Linux fanatics at the turn of the century, and they stubbornly believed that somehow magically Linux as it was at the time would go mainstream on the desktop and vanquish Windows. It was always an absurd premise. It almost always takes a paradigm shift to leave a big enough opening, and mobile provided that (the desktop still being ruled by Windows).