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In a blog post last March I concluded:

My gut feel is that a mobile-internet-device will be more like a souped up smartphone than a dumbed down PC, and so Atom will lose to ARM. In fact I think the smartphone and MID markets will converge. Microsoft will lose unless they port to ARM.

Since I wrote that before the debut of the iPad, when lots of people wiser than me were holding the view that netbooks/tablets etc would all need to be Windows-compatible and thus Atom-based to be successful, I think it was a reasonably prescient view.