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rbanffy on May 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when...

Win8 is Windows kernel + Windows API + Windows RT. Win8 on ARM is Win8 minus Windows API. It's not a new product - it's a castrated version of the latest version of an old product.

cooldeal on May 12, 2012 [–]

By that metric, neither iOS nor Android are new, they're just castrated versions of OS X and Linux.

An OS is much more than it's kernel.

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