Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 2nd Apr 2005 20:44 UTC
The future is mobile. That much we know for sure. But it seems that the operating system world in this market is being rapidly taken over by --again-- Microsoft. The new smart phones are are using WinCE, Symbian or Palm. Linux has barely 1% of this new, smartphone market.
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I think it mostly comes down to subsidizing. Microsoft doesn't have to do anything better than its competitors. All they need to do is butter the bread of OEMs and cell companies.
I recall reading an article where microsoft basically PAID a cell company in Asia to use their mobile software... negating the need for the company to pay for licenses or developers to mold linux to work on their phones. Basically, the tactic here... is to pay people to use your product, get them hooked, then the other players end up joining in...
This is a perfect example of a monopoly that has gotten way out of hand. Even with the lawsuits and fines, they're still essentially the same beast. They don't need to change their practices, anyway; a fine is basically an investment into themselves. (In America, the remainder of a microsoft settlement was to be donated to public education IT budgets. -- this went right back to Microsoft, as the schools ended up buying more MS Windows licenses.)