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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>Yes phones are flashable with a JTAG system.
Asiamum, you are not realistic. Do you really think that a generic linux distro for phones can work as well as the real thing when each carrier has its own needs and quirks? It's not gonna happen. And if it is, it only gonna work well for a handful of phones only.
The point is, there is no way Linux can play the same trick it played for desktops: installable side by side with windows, or completely on its own on an ex-Windows machine. If there are only 2-3% of linux desktop systems today, expect less than 0.2% of people doing the same thing on phones. It's just not the same thing. People don't want to screw up their phone contracts.
I will say it again: to really have a foothold in the embedded market, the product must be closely tight to the hardware/carrier. A generic distro can not achieve this. It won't work as well this time for Linux.