Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Jun 2008 09:40 UTC, submitted by tbutler
Back in 2001, there was a company who thought they could launch a sustainable business model around a file manager. They wrote the file manager itself, and figured they could profit from offering online services delivered through the file manager. However, the company ran out of money quickly, and wen they released version 1.0 of their file manager, they had to fire everyone, only to go down a few months later. That company was Eazel, and the file manager was Nautilus. Apparently, some saw this as the demise of the Linux desktop - others didn't.
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RE: Lack of realism , Distorted perception
by sanctus on Sun 1st Jun 2008 15:27
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Member since:2005-08-31
Even the iPhone predicted 10 million is already beaten by GNU/Linux offers and Android who is coming soon will make it look like they made the same mistake as they did for computers ...
Ummm, That points out something to me, ah yes, all those posts saying that the playsforsure will kill the iPod .
- There as never been a 100% solution that pleased everyone.
That quite true
Apple is a small player on computers anyway :
But probably the most influential
Member since:
2005-07-06
The biggest problem is lack of realism.
You don't have to beat Windows on Volume to be a succesful desktop. GNU/Linux already do if you take all class of desktop that exists :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Classes_of_computers
You don't have to beat Apple on vision to have vision either and again GNU/Linux as more vision over all :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_window_manager
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The distorted perception that GNU/Linux as to beat Windows or Apple at anything is false.
GNU/Linux as to do things better for itself. Sure GNU/Linux could be more advanced , but people mostly invested in SUSE and Red Hat. Who took the money and delivered Corporate solutions ( Server - Workstations ) ...
Ubuntu suck at computer delivery. That's what people buy this day turn key complete solution. Asus EEE PC and G/OS got more visibility then Dell offers who are still hidden ...
Even the iPhone predicted 10 million is already beaten by GNU/Linux offers and Android who is coming soon will make it look like they made the same mistake as they did for computers ...
- There as never been a 100% solution that pleased everyone.
Apple is a small player on computers anyway :
http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20080306PR203.html
Everyone else ship twice as more then they do ...