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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why not use a free OS rather than a licenced OS? if linux can perform the duties of a PDA for FREE or little cost, then why use an expensive OS like WinCE?? symbian and palm are much cheaper and those devices are very popular, and memory requirements are lower than WinCE but some people want to play videos on their phone and play games and whatnot so WinCE is the current choice.
Linux would be a good choice, but something that a phone company can develope in house for little cost or sponser a community of linux people to develope an open phone distro.