[Discuss] Fighting UEFI

[chris at tylers.info (Chris Tyler)]

On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 13:40 -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> You're scenario of a vendor making an identical product with alternate
> firmware to serve another high volume market (Android) is plausible, but
> it isn't likely to happen often.

Really?

Given the choice of supporting...

(a) Windows RT, an operating system that currently has 0% market share
from a vendor that has a dismal track record in the tablet and mobile
spaces, where that vendor is competing with your hardware (Windows
Surface tablet) and won't let you substantially tweak the software, or 

(b) Android (plus everything else out there), which currently has a very
high market share and where you can tweak the software,

...You think vendors are going to put all of their eggs in basket (a)?
Especially when they can produce both models by just changing the model
number sticker and flash image?

-Chris