Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th Apr 2008 21:53 UTC
Novell's Nat Friedman told InternetNews.com: "The basic concept here is that the standalone operating system is dead." Friedman is Novell's Chief Technology Officer. He added: "The days in which people buy operating systems on their own and then build a stack from there [...] will look like home-built automobiles in the future - people aren't going to do this anymore." This is not the first time some big company predicts the end of the traditional operating system.
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You don't seem to understand. When we say "it's dead", we mean that it's something that will still exist, but it won't bother the normal user
People have said the same thing about televisions, cars, computers in general and so on and so forth. Not going to happen. And, the OS market is driven by what businesses want, not by home-users, so you just can't declare OS market dead if home-users don't care what OS they run. Besides, home-users have never cared about it as long as they get to do what they wish, and if they have some specific app (like my sister specifically wants MSN Messenger) that it runs on the computer they own. That brings another point why OS market will not die: I just simply will not believe that all software will run on any available OS. There will always be some OS which is not supported, and as such there is always market for the supported OSes. You can't deny that.
Just like no one cares about the firmware inside the latest Bluetooth headset or even your TV remote control
Difference: you use those only for ONE specific purpose. Computers are used for gazillions of different uses AND people install applications on them to further expand the uses of the computer. This would be a valid example if computers were really only appliances, used only for a few very specific tasks. But since that is not the case your example is moot.