{"id":548,"date":"2011-03-11T22:34:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T21:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:23:09","slug":"rebooting-the-desktop-os-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/rebooting-the-desktop-os-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebooting the Desktop <span class=\"caps\">OS<\/span> Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let\u2019s imagine that the desktop <span class=\"caps\">OS<\/span> market starts from scratch, with no strings attached. That is, neither lock-in effects nor switching costs; zeroed learning curve effects, resetted economies of scale and scope and absent network effects; just free-entry without any of the preceding oligopolistic and monopolistic market structures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wouldn\u2019t it be wonderful if we could find a natural experiment, not a thought one, in which to observe the resultant market shares? Could we know how would they most likely rank?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yes, we can. It\u2019s the mobile <span class=\"caps\">OS<\/span> market!<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Android (Linux)<\/li>\n<li>iOS (Apple)<\/li>\n<li>Windows Phone\/Mobile (Microsoft)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In other words, the desktop <span class=\"caps\">OS<\/span> market, <strong>in reverse order<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s imagine that the desktop <span class=\"caps\">OS<\/span> market starts from scratch, with no strings attached. That is, neither lock-in effects nor switching costs; zeroed learning curve effects, resetted economies of scale and scope and absent network effects; just free-entry without any of the preceding oligopolistic and monopolistic market structures. Wouldn\u2019t it be wonderful if we&nbsp;could&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}