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Re: [News] Google Fights to Conquer 3 Billion Small PCs with GNU/Linux

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> The Man Behind the Google Phone
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| ?The thing that gets me going is touching a large number of people ? if 
>| there?s 3.1 billion phones out there, it?s a great way to touch people,? he 
>| says. ?I want to find something that delights people so they use it, and they 
>| use it for the merits of it being it.?   
> `----
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/technology/04google.html?_r=2&ei=5088&en=f05a55321435d1e9&ex=1351828800&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
> 
> More details coming tomorrow.
> 
> (Smart)Phones become more like PCs and it shows:
> 
> PCs being pushed aside in Japan
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| 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.   
> `----
> 
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_hi_te/bye_bye_pcs
> 
> Quick! Tell Ballmer that Windows is too 'fat' (like father, like son) to
> survive in tomorrow's PCs generation.
> 

The rest of the world seems to be catching up with my view that the
desktop is dead...  

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