My claim becomes strained when you move away from desktop applications. I really meant - if you're a coder, and you want to use some awesome ideal hacker desktop that moves away from the institutions of today, that desktop better be useful for consumers or you're going to be complaining about Acme BigCo not releasing their apps on your platform. Linux already gets that problem enough and it's part of a 30+ year lineage.
Obviously people on a toy OS with enough features can develop things for other platforms, but it would be nice if there was enough of a mainstream install base to allow developers to develop on the same platform they love to use.
