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To: Cogito who wrote (132417)	4/28/2012 1:23:26 AM
From: pyslent	Respond to of 213181

"The only reason there are any apps at all for Windows 7 or 7.5 is that Microsoft paid developers to build them" Developers will go where the users are. Probably no more than 10 million people use Windows Phone, so there's little incentive for the developers. The question is whether the 100 million users who buy Windows 8 PC's in the first year will count in the eyes of would-be Metro developers. If desktop users come to embrace the new Start Screen, the apps will come. And those apps will make the tablets more attractive. Either way, I don't think iOS is in any jeapardy. With the tablet market, Apple will either end up selling 70% of a smallish market (like they did with the iPod) or 5-10% of a huge market (like they've got with PCs and cell phones). Either way, they will sell the same number of iPads.