Ok, if you haven't seen Palm's new release yet, it's going to be a wonderfully pleasant surprise out of the old group:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/08/ces-2009-palm-press-conference/ What this means: assuming palm doesn't screw this up, and I suspect they won't: - We now have 3 top-tier consumer phone platforms: iPhone, Andriod, Palm. - All 3 are Unix based. - the last two are linux based. Which already means we're going to see more good things end up in the linux kernel stack from these vendors. Less work for the OM community, as more people are interested now. But, it also means that the mobile device market is: - Heating up. More products, press, and interest - Growing. We're not going down the same route as the iPod. There isn't a clear market winner, which means it'll grow out heterogeneously into a large, diverse market. Those two mean that OM's going to have some incoming interest just by the other products driving in more customers into the marketplace. Oh, and did I mention that OM's the only one of the four that's C/Posix programmable? iPhone: Obj-C, Android: Java, Palm: HTML/AJAX/Javascript. -- H. Lally Singh Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Virginia Tech _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community