The PC revolution is also on the skids in a more general sense -- feudal models of security, centralization of networks, etc. There are many reasons for this,

The PC revolution is also on the skids in a more general sense -- feudal models of security, centralization of networks, etc. There are many reasons for this, but one that sticks out to me as relating directly to this particular article is usability and to a related and lesser extent design. Usability and design rule the market. This is why Linux on the desktop is basically dead outside of a few enthusiasts and pilot projects, and why the PC is dying in favor of (feudalized) mobile platforms. These platforms, while less free and open, offer a vastly superior user interaction experience. The paramount importance of usability and design is something that open source and open platform geeks have never grasped because they're the sorts of people who don't mind being confronted with a "# " prompt and don't mind fiddling with computers to get them to work. It's like asking car racing and tuning enthusiasts to design a car for the general public. They'd be likely to include all kinds of nerd knobs and weird features (that's the NOX knob, yo!) that would confuse or endanger the average driver.