   The PC market developed very differently from how the
smartphone market is taking form. Because of this, it’s
interesting to think about how the tablet market will unfold.
Will it be more like the PC market, where we had one dominant OS
(Microsoft) and one much smaller player (Apple)? Or will it
develop more like the smartphone market where we have multiple
viable platforms including iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows
Phone?  The way I see it, the PC market is not a very good
comparison because by the time market share was carved up
between Microsoft and Apple, there was no such thing as the
Internet. There was no web browser. There was no HTML, or
TCP/IP. Instead, PCs and Macs ran stand-alone applications and
saved files to disks. You had to buy software in actual stores
(or by mail). Everything was disconnected.  In contrast to this,
smartphones were born in the web era. The first real smartphones
were from RIM, with their BlackBerry solution. Sure, the web
browsers were horrible, at least until the i