i know that sony is a MNC and like all they try to keep control over concurence and over the customer at the same time, will b hard way to find out that this strategy cant work.
Why do u need windows? All u need it a GUI. And there will b other OS that u can swap to like when u stopped using dos and started with windows. Its easy even if it mite take some time.
of course i know, that cell at first wont be as fast as 1000times of a pc....but dont forget they did that statement in 2003, thats far away and dont forget its advertisement, they must talk like that.
but after all, u cant stop the future. maybe it wont be cell like it is planned today, but x86 is already past in the eye of an developer who looks 5 years into the future and thinks about what people will want in 5 years from now. x86 was fine for the needs of the last 20 years but the developer already doesnt look at the next stupid MHz upgrade for a P4 anymore, or at pcie, he knows this will be only minor improvements, but hes already concerned and thinking about the post-pc-era. Things will have to be alot more mobile in the future, maybe all u have in 10 years are a couple of small modules that will work everywhere since u can plug it in any hardware and use it everywhere as long as ur connected to the local and worldwide networks. no more sitting at home and having a local telephone adsl account or having to carry a 15kg comp to a lan when u want to have fun with ur friends. no more offices with 1 comp per employee, all the lazy dude will get is a ergonmic input device, a password, his personal data device with all his stuff on it, whatever kind that will, mechanical or optical, and a monitor. Iam loosing my point, but one thing i know for sure...personal computers like the one under my desk dont have a future.