Android, With More Optimism
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| Meanwhile, Apple has the reverse situation with the iPhone. The software
| integration is almost exactly perfect for the hardware -- but it only runs on
| one piece of hardware -- the iPhone itself. Whether or not this is a bad
| thing depends on if you are a user (it's very good) or a market analyst (OMG
| sell all your AAPL!).
|
| Another important statement I made in the comments on the last entry is that
| I firmly believe that Apple needs a competitor. They need someone nipping at
| the iPhone, even distantly, to keep from becoming complacent. Competition is
| good for everyone, and right now Apple is in a league of their own.
|
| And that's why, despite all my grumping and flailing about of hands, I wish
| Google the best of luck with Android, and I'm looking forward to seeing it
| run on some actual hardware, and what happens after that. Even if all you do
| is bury Palm and Windows Mobile with a quantum leap in quality, you'll have
| done the world a great service.
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http://stevenf.com/2007/11/android_with_more_optimism.php
Mind the fact that Microsoft has had absolutely no response to advanced phones
like Android-based phones and iPhone. It still has a ~5% market share after
many years in the business.
Related:
What Android means for Apple, MS, open source, enterprises
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| The GPhone never happened, but Android is a much more significant development
|
| [...]
|
| A better approach, argues Dan Kohn, COO of the Linux Foundation, is to pick
| one set of standards that IT will support for calendaring, email
| applications, VPN and so on, and tell users they can use any mobile phone
| compatible with those standards.
|
| [...]
|
| What Android means for open source and Linux
| Linux already has a major presence on mobile phones, but the entrance of
| Google and the Open Handset Alliance — which has 34 member organisations
| worldwide — adds to the momentum.
|
| "We're a huge believer in diversity of options on mobile phones," Kohn of the
| Linux Foundation says. "Linux is already an important, growing presence
| there. I think having the Google software as an additional open source option
| is only going to accelerate that adoption."
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/D22188C825F8528FCC257394007BE16D
In praise of Google
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| Google has its problems. I wish it would contribute more source-code
| modifications that it makes to Linux, MySQL, Apache, and others open-source
| projects, for one. But overall, the world is better for Google's sheer power
| of search and minimalist design.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9819638-16.html?tag=head
Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices
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| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html
Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco: Linux Is Mobile's Future
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| LinuxInsider met with Capobianco to discuss his view on the role of open
| source in creating Mobile 2.0 as a voice and data carrier parallel to the
| Internet. The meeting occurred in the wake of Google's announcement earlier
| this month that it was negotiating with wireless carriers, handset makers,
| software developers and hardware providers to use an open source mobile
| platform, Android.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60340.html
After the Desktop -- What?
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| I would suggest that the open source community should stop obsessing
| with the battle for the desktop, and start focusing on the battle for
| the platform that will replace it. As I have said before, the day
| will soon come when the notion of having to go to a particular
| machine on a particular room every time you need access to
| information or computer power will be as obsolete as the notion
| of having to go to the hand pump over the well in the front
| yard every time you need water.
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http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/02/after-desktop-what.html
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