Study predicts strong growth for mobile Linux
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| Linux represents 15 percent of the smartphone market, but that figure should
| grow considerably, says a market research report. The study, from Strategy
| Analytics, found that Motorola will continue to drive the growth for mobile
| Linux, along with Google.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5710819221.html
Tomorrow's PCs ('desktops') are devices like smartphones. See reference below
to a study which supports this. Also this one which is new:
The Glass Roots Revolution
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| 1) Linux is a selling point.
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| This hasn't been the case in the past. In my 2004 report I found only eleven
| mentions of Linux among all the exhibitors at the show. And that was the year
| after Kunitake Ando, president and CEO of Sony, gave a famous keynote speech,
| announcing the company's intention to make Linux its future embedded
| operating system. (The CELF -- Consumer Electronics Linux Forum -- grew out
| of the same effort.)
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| [...]
|
| 2) Wintel is dead. Long live Lintel.
|
| One company not afraid to brag about Linux was Intel. At one end of the
| company's immense floor space was a booth in itself devoted to Mobility.
|
| [...]
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| 3) Open Mobile is starting to happen.
|
| There has always been an unhappy partnership between cell phone makers and
| carriers, especially in the U.S., where carriers often require makers to dumb
| down European or Asian phones so they won't do, say, GPS or Wi-Fi. Then when
| Apple came out with the iPhone last summer, it was discouraging to see an
| active new development community producing fun apps that only ran on unlocked
| phones. Even with stalwart mobile Linux companies like Trolltech and OpenMoko
| on the scene, hope that we'd see phones as open as white box PCs seemed as
| far away as ever.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/glass-roots-revolution
"It just tells you how desperate Microsoft is for a competitor that they’re
holding up a software box produced by 100 guys in the hills of North Carolina.
Who are they trying to kid?"
--Robert Young, CEO of Red Hat
Related:
PCs being pushed aside in Japan
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| The PC's role in Japanese homes is diminishing, as its once-awesome monopoly
| on processing power is encroached by gadgets such as smart phones that act
| like pocket-size computers, advanced Internet-connected game consoles,
| digital video recorders with terabytes of memory.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_hi_te/bye_bye_pcs
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