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tesseract on March 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Chair

It's not just about users being able to install video cards or whatever. You as a developer are going to have a harder time inventing the next email or WWW or Google or Netflix or Twitter, if your potential users are all using closed platforms rather than open ones.

pnathan on March 4, 2011 [–]

Totally agree. I'm just observing there's a pretty big gulf between a non-techie and a techie when it comes to expectations of electronics.

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