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Google Pulls PSX4Droid For Sony's Xperia Play
tlhIngan writes "Google has apparently pulled an Apple and pulled PSX4Droid (a PlayStation emulator) from the Marketplace, citing 'policy violations' for it reason. It's believed that Sony's Xperia Play (aka Playstation Phone) release was behind the move. Strangely, FPSE is still on the Marketplace."
I can't help but think these are the waning days of computer ownership. I know a lot of head-in-the-sand types will deny it, but outside of some niche uses, phones will become computer replacements. 95% of what people do with PCs can be done either on a phone, or a phone + a wireless display/keyboard. People will deny it just like they denied that these upstart PCs would kill their beloved Sun workstations, and so forth, but the simple fact is that technical users are almost the polar opposite of the mass market. I don't mean this will happen in 5 years. But in 15 or 20, PCs and laptops will be niche devices.
As this happens more and more, the era of owning your own computing devices is drawing to a close. It was a nice thing while it lasted, but it's increasingly less and less true all the time. And nobody seems to really mind, which is why it will/can happen.
This bothers old people like me, but it will becoming the newly accepted culture over time - the "new normal".
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