But it could also be that the move towards open mobile presents new opportunities for Chinese companies to exert the control over innovation they crave.
The Barcelona Openpresents another opportunity for Nadal, and his fellow clay-court specialists, to tune-up for the French Open which begins on May 26.
In terms of what innovators around the world are saying though the iPad is not exciting people the way the Kinect is and the reason is that the Kinect presents more open-ended and broader opportunities for people to redesign their work experience, at a consumer price level.