Before reading this sure to be excellent article, I have to say how revealing the first comments are. Seems like the first knee-jerk reaction is to discredit the guy and its articles.
Yes, the Roughly Drafted author is an Apple fan, but he's also a very knowledgeable guy, which has excellent informations and analysis power, who have been right on a too high ratio for anything he says to be dismissed just because "you don't know him" or "he's an Apple fan".
I know I will read his piece with great interest now, and I'm also sure it's full of truth and likely to happen predictions.
Edit:
After reading the article, I can understand the hatred. Now, I'm sure that every MS shill will have their name in this thread at least once, as they have to do their job of quickly trying to discredit this article, like good astroturfers and shills, the very tactics described in the article, for which MS is so known for.
This article is the plain hard truth, it approaches the 99 % correct, which is amazing.
It's not even rocket science, as everything he's written could be validated by any industry observer who has watched the computers industry this last decade, like myself.
I'm glad because there's one thing I learned from this article, that I hoped for several years ago, and thought would never come. Lots of industries have been screwed by MS, actually, every MS partner has always been screwed. Which is why I can so easily predict some things around MS nowadays. I remember when I said Sega would bite the dust before their console was even released, as soon as I learned they partnered with MS for their console's OS (which was based on WinCE). This is also why I favored Blu-Ray, despite it being backed by Sony. But what makes me glad, is that finally, at least some companies have wised up, and allied against MS proprietary stranglehold.
Which is a very good thing.Thank god H264 won this one!
