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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>There seems to be no huge demand from customers
>to have Linux on their PC
In the beginning there was no huge demand for symbian or MS either, but these companies decided to press the matter and stay focused and then flourish when the time was right for smartphones: 2004+.
It was important that such a linux company existed for at least 4-5 years developing the solution and then boom when the time was right. Yes, there was some risk involved, but the risk was the same for Symbian too.
Besides, no one can deny that the future is mobile. The company that was there early, developing the solution and explode when the time was right did the right move. Palm did it, MS did it, Symbian did it too. There was no such company for Linux though and that's why I wrote the editorial.