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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The all-in-one deal is pretty inevitable. As technology keeps shrinking and manufacturing processes become more efficient, there's no reason not to integrate more features in a handheld.
Basically... you use what you need, and that's it. Kind of like a desktop computer. I don't hear anyone complaining that their computer is too fast and capable, when all they do is play Yahoo! games and use MS Word.
Essentially, it's just more cost-effective to use modern parts.. and modern parts are more capable, by default, than old parts. So integrating more functions take advantage of modern hardware.
For example - you would never *GO OUT AND BUY* a really old motherboard, 800 meg hard drive, 32meg SIMMs, and an old Pentium Classic... just to run a word processor and web browser. You could get a decent Duron rig with more horse power, ram, and hard drive space for roughly the same price.