The EEE doesn't enter in my pocket, it just does not compare to an itt.
For pim stuff, you realise why patents and closed applications are a pain for technology progress.
Do you think linux dev wouldn't be able to develop one? No no, it's just that the only thing that these companies have been able to invent is:
Locking mechanism
Lack of interoperability

And they can pay (a lot) some high skilled scientifics for developing new video codecs, new UI design. This is hard to do with with FOSS "business model".


Microsoft hasn't invented anything clever and opened as far as I know. It's just a marketing company. Die die die!!

If you don't pay or don't run their OS, you can not use the softwares included. It's a way of keeping the market while increasing the prices and needing more and more cpu power. Well, as long as people like to pay for a few colors, it will go on.