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[News] Op-ed: Linux Can Surge in Mobile Phones, Platform Becomes Commodity

  • Subject: [News] Op-ed: Linux Can Surge in Mobile Phones, Platform Becomes Commodity
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:41:49 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth: mobile Linux stalled by proprietary lock on industry,
lack of neutral Linux platform

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| “Linux as a whole … is very clearly on a trajectory to be the emerging 
| platform of choice. So, my sense is that if you just stop at Linux, that that 
| will be by far the dominant platform,” Shuttleworth claims. “Motorola talks 
| about 60% of their future devices running Linux. I suspect the number will go 
| higher as soon as people see that it works well at 60% and I’m not sure that 
| there isn’t a natural cap on where it could get,” he said.”     
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2060

Open Voices – Mark Shuttleworth

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| It’s going to be very interesting to see what role Linux plays in unsettling 
| Microsoft. It’s certainly true that one of Microsoft’s major cash cows—which 
| is the operating system—is very vulnerable to commoditization. You know, I 
| believe that the operating system is already a commodity; it’s just that most 
| folks haven’t realized it and so they’re willing to pay for it.    
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=524


Related:

Linux to grow 278% in embedded/mobile/real-time apps

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| Linux use in "next" embedded, mobile, and real-time projects will grow 278 
| percent over that in "previous" projects, suggests a recent survey by Venture 
| Development Corp. (VDC).   
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7115758310.html


PCs step aside… smarter mobiles are coming

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| Citing the examples of the company’s single core solutions for smart phones, 
| consumer electronics and automotive entertainment and ARM Mali graphics 
| processors, and its collaboration for Linux mobile computing, Mr Keith said 
| mobile phone makers are taking to a platform approach which offers 
| flexibility to add new features.    
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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/11/05/stories/2007110550450200.htm


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


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


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


Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs

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| Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same 
| time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a 
| tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs 
| in users' hands.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the 
| point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows 
| XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to. 
| Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can 
| no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice 
| of the desktop market pie.      
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html

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