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Yes, this is the exact same situation as on iOS.

But 1. the mobile app market was even more locked down before Apple entered it and 2. Apple is the media's darling.

Or more accurately: "2. We've already had threads and threads of criticism for Apple over this subject. They're not changing and we've moved on."

The reason this is worth talking about re: Windows 8 ARM, is that people are optimistic they can still convince Microsoft to take a different approach.

Yes. Because the media very much cares about native code generators on ARM chipsets.

They sure seem to, for Windows RT. That was the point.

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