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Shih also brought up the example of the competition between video tape formats, pointing out that the open VHS standard won against the closed Betamax format.

So, to paraphrase, "stick with Acer because the best man doesn't always win"? :)



Stick with Acer because a bunch of mediocre people cooperating will always win out over one extraordinary man.


no because you can run programs on Acer netbook which will also run on say HP and Dell netbook's.


Betamax tapes work on other Betamax players. I hope.


oh are i-OS API and code cross platform compatible? Do any other companies except Apple create iOS devices?

in fact Apple used 3.3.1 to make sure that code was not cross platform compatible.




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