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[News] Linux Bound to Win User-facing Devices by Conquering from the Bottom

  • Subject: [News] Linux Bound to Win User-facing Devices by Conquering from the Bottom
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:54:58 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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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


Related:

Where does Linux go from here?

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| Linux and free software are here to stay. No single commercial firm will ever 
| control the Linux ecosystem like Microsoft has the rest of the software 
| industry. Though both may prosper, the bazaar will outlive the boardrooms, 
| and Linux popularity will continue to grow on servers, desktops, appliances, 
| and embedded devices.    
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http://www.linux.com/feature/119865s


This time for sure on mobile Linux

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| The Wal-Mart Linux PC, priced at $198, is sold out. Zonbu seems to be gaining 
| traction, with a notebook priced at $279. 
| 
| “You’re seeing incredibly improved device drivers. We’ve got hundreds now. 
| This is a phenomenal effort that plays to the strength of Linux, a volunteer 
| community representing millions of dollars in free development.  
| 
| “You’re seeing more manufacturers shipping Linux desktops, PCs and laptops 
| but also mobile Internet devices from Acer, Motorola’s Razr, TiVo…there’s a 
| slew of new devices coming out.”  
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1773


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


Google's mobile move: awe-inspiring and terrifying

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| It is also another awe-inspiring -- or terrifying, depending on one's 
| perspective -- display of the engineering and business resources Google can 
| unleash and of the power it has to influence, disrupt and rearrange markets.  
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071106/tc_infoworld/93133


Google spending hundreds of millions on mobile

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| Anian, a Reuters company that tracks industry trends for institutional 
| investors, reported last month that Google had engaged Taiwan's High Tech 
| Computer Corpto design a Linux 
| software-based phone for launch in the first quarter of 2008.   
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http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN02242073


Microsoft's vision for universal mobile platform a little blurred

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| Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows Mobile is currently not even in the 
| second runner in the smartphone operating systems race. Linux, which is 
| widely used on mobile devices in China, is second to Symbian with more than 
| 13% market share. Windows mobile is a distant third with about 6% share.   
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15017/1023/


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 expected to be leading Smartphone OS market by 2010

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| I just came across this research by Diffusion Group, which found
| that Linux is set to become the leading Smartphone OS by 2010.
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http://irfanhabib.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/linux-to-take-over-smartphone-os-market-by-2010/


FEATURE: Mobile Linux: Why it will become the dominant mobile OS

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| I see the mobile Linux wave out in the ocean and am sounding the
| alarm--the mobile Linux tide is rising. Be prepared.
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http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/feature-mobile-linux-why-it-will-become-the-dominant-mobile-os/2007-01-03

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