On 03 Nov 2013, at 19:33, kilon alios <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:

Are those the same people that a decade ago were proclaiming Java dead ?  It only takes a walk to TIOBE INDEX to see how much of a threat mobile market is to desktop. 

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html


http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/04/12/tiobe-or-not-tiobe-lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/

I am sure Angry Birds and Candy Crash Saga are substantial opponents to Desktop but I don't see Windows sweating from agony any time soon. 


On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:

On 03 Nov 2013, at 19:11, kilon alios <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:

> I fail to see how Windows prohibited iPhone from appearing or anything in my quote saying that. They are not even in the same market.

Yet, that old market is now in a very bad shape and people talk about the �death of the desktop�.
You do not need to be in the same market if you can make the old one obsolete.

        Marcus