Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Mar 2009 17:23 UTC
To further prove that analysts' projections are just informed guesses, two major analyst firms just presented a completely different outlook on the netbook market and where it is going. Even though both project major growth, one of them sees a very bright future for non-Intel netbooks, while the other sticks with Atom.
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Interestingly, even the most pessimistic analyst gives ARM at least a 10% market share a few years ahead. That means, users can rely on sufficient support in terms of Linux distros, hardware compatibility.
As on how steep the success will be - I agree this will heavily depend on the i386 compatibility issue. Apple's smooth CPU transitions all came along with some sort of compatibility layer / emulator layer. ARM doesn't neccessarily have to go the same path, but they'll have to find something like a solution for this problem. At least at the user interface level.