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They have huge contracts with all OEMs and make the drives for their chipsets. Planning to add that appstore to it as bloatware and having an installbase in the hundreds of millions quickly wasn't that crazy.


I thought they would succeed-ish enough for me to register as a developer for App-Up. Alas, they didn't.


Developers: easily neglected by hardware manufacturers.

Platform fails without them, though.

Announce a platform, intending for it to fail? Big fish like Intel are masters at this now.




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