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Originally Posted by eiffel View Post
Another thing to remember is that a successful product will have vibrant sub-communities springing up in all over the place, not just in the "official vendor-supported place".

For example the iPhone has a passionate photo-oriented community at Flickr, totally unrelated to the sub-communities that are involved with iPhone music or iPhone applications.

For a product with open sourced software, the diversification should be even greater.

Roger.
Agreed, but as I'm sure you and most others here are already aware the internet tablets are in an awkward spot: mostly open source software with somewhat open source hardware. They're treading a fine line between open and closed that is largely unprecedented. That's why IMO corporate guidance and support is the most important aspect of the device platform's and OS platform's successes (they can be so independently).
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