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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So no company stepped up and made a Linux phone (with serious commitment behind it). First of all, that is completely than trying and failing.
"Hey, there was a race today, and you didn't win, therefore you failed" is not valid if you were never interested in participating.
No, but "There was a race today and you didn't show up. You failed", is. Think of it more like, 5 years (probably sooner) from now there will be a huge market of PDAs and smart phones and I can see everyone complaining when Microsoft (or some other proprietary company) "owns" that market. Then the Linux community will try to catch on but will have the same difficulties of gaining market share as it has now on the desktop.
I'm a fan of Linux on the PC, but on a phone, I couldn't care less. On the PC, Linux gives me advantages, because it works better for me than any other OS.
So what if Linux would work better on a phone than any other OS? (btw, I'm not saying it currently works better on the desktop as any other OS, you are)
It'd be nice if the software was free, and it should be, since its so simple, but from a functionality standpoint, theres no difference.
The software is not simple. And it should only be free if the author decides so. But that's a debate for some other time.
Point is, the world is becoming more and more mobile.