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Originally Posted by brontide View Post
TiVo, Panasonic set-top boxes, Archos PMP's, D-Link DM320, and the Kindle all run linux and are targeted at consumers.
Those are appliances. The Internet tablets are general purpose computing devices. That's a significant difference.

Had Nokia gone a different direction and locked the tablets down, I suspect we'd have seen a higher level of polish on the bundled apps. However, it would also be a less interesting and successful product line.
 

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