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PM  Frank Shaw  (Source: Microsoft said mobile devices are used
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convo By karimtemple on 6/5/2013 9:18:11 AM , Rating: 2 Phones
and tablets are general-purpose. You can't get office document,
GPS maps, art doodling, and terminal emulator software on a
Sega; not from Sega. You can do anything like that on a phone or
tablet.  Approving software or having an App Store doesn't
change the fact that the platform is both expected to be
general-purpose and in fact is general-purpose.  I've seen iPad
being used with scanners in warehouses and iPhones being used
with hospital pharmacy systems. You can't do that with a Saturn.
I can run whatever OS I want on a PC. Linux, Windows, OS/2, DOS,
FreeBSD, you name it. After selecting the OS, I can then select
whatever software I want, or even write my own. I believe the
phrase you're looking for is "Wintel." All PCs started out as
closed environments.