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I do not know about your country but here in Brazil, notebooks only count for about 5% of population, we have 180 milion people, and 210 milion phones, about 30% (60 milion) smartphones. People using smartphones will not buy PC, they will buy tablets.. and NONE of them runs windows that is a 100% market.. It is cheaper and just works... For each of us here (in the techrepublic...) there are 1000 others that does not care about word,office,photoshop, windows, vga, nvidia, tegra2, Gigabytes... That is the market for tablets.. in some time (3 years), there will be more people using tablets than desktop pc.. Here at my home, I have a ONE PC (running UNIX, and wine for the iTunes) and 4 tablets, one for each person.. (iPad, 2 galaxy, asus) If you would write an application, what platform would you choose??? While microsoft won the desktop and enterprise, apple, android, linux, won the entertainment. the personal.. If I go downtown by bus, or metro, Everyone is using a smartphone, listen music, watching TV, playing... I can buy an chinese smartphone with 3 gsm chip, for about US$20, my niece (6 years old have one), and it just works... there is free wifi almost everywhere (they are offering free whifi inside metropolitan buses, so if you are stuck in the trafic, just stop aside from the bus, and you are in internet, and gsm/3G works, I hook my home phone in that unix pc installed an asterisk, and so I can receive/make calls from my tablet better than using the cell phone.. I pay only US$20, for my 3G plan, and phone calls are done from fixed phone, that is 10 times cheaper than mobile..
This is the scenario we have here in Brazil..
4th Feb