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 "mini-editorial" is asking why Linux didn't try harder to seize the cell phone market, not why cell phones are over-powerful. While it would be nice to have a phone that focuses more on calls and longer battery life, but that's not really the point.
I think it would be nice to have more Linux-based phones, and not for more powerful software on a phone. It would be nice to enhance Linux as a platform, increasing its versatility even further.
Further, why should Microsoft be dominating another platform? Why NOT Linux? If we have to "suffer" by being forced to use "too-powerful" phones, at least it could be Linux running the show.