It's amazing when you give away an operating system for free to get adopted that it will get, well, adopted. Mobile market is a fast race to the bottom, and everyone is trying to cut their costs. A free OS is one cost you don't need to pay.
It is, however, no indication of quality. And then there are lawsuits: http://www.infoworld.com/t/intellectual-property/oracles-android-lawsuit-pandoras-box-serious-evils-359 Motorola, one of the biggest users of Android, is hedging its bets on Android: http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/mobility/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229400097 Google needs to understand open source just a little more... its a Linux kernel but no one can see it? http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/motorola-xoom-news/1567-google-keeping-android-3-0-honeycomb-closed-now.html William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > For many years people have always said this is the year for Linux to > start taking over some of the Desktop market share. Well after many > years of that proving to be wrong year after year. I am not sure how > much that matters any more. > > While Linux has a pathetic fraction of the desktop market share, it > holds its own when it comes to servers. But something no one was really > looking out for was Linux taking over and dominating the smart phone > market, and likely also portable embedded systems, just as tablets, > pads, etc. > > Its amazing how quickly Linux/Android took over and become the #1 > smartphone operating sytem. Thus Linux might not rule on the desktop, > but it does on the smartphone and other devices. Take that M$, bite my > Apple, Apple, and for the rest, so sad to bad :) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Operating_systems > > Granted its a slight lead over Symbian(Nokia). But how long have they > been in the market place compared to Android. Same applies for Apply, > who stole Cisco's operating system name, totally lame! > > Look at how much Androids market share increased last year. Now this > might sound bad, but I do not see my mother or relatives ever running > Linux on the desktop. But not to long ago, after damaging her phone, she > now has an Android powered device. Which now makes my mother and others > Linux users, they just don't know it. ;) > > Not a bad thing and way to go Linux and Android, thank you Google! > -- Kyle Gonzales [email protected] GPG Key #0x566B435B Read My Tech Blog: http://techiebloggiethingie.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
