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Android part of free software future
June 14th, 2008 by Head Robot
From Free Software Magazine;
To sum up, the world in 2 years (2010) has a chance of being very different to what it’s like today. People’s phones/PDAs will run Android. Their sub-laptops/netbooks/sub-notebooks will run Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Their gaming machine of choice will be a Playstation or a Nintendo one (hopefully, Microsoft will run out of money to pour into the XBox). Their PCs will be collecting dust on a glorious desk, turned off for weeks on end. Their full-size laptops (if they have one) will run Vista or Ubuntu. They will be able to exchange ODF documents with their office and their friends, and will be using OpenOffice and Firefox.
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Apple’s open source sweet spot
June 10th, 2008 by Head RobotFrom ZDNet:
When Matt mentioned last week that Googlers are spending their extra time noodling around with their Macs, I ignored it.
Despite all the hype and the neat commercials, Macintosh market share remains anemic. The server market is virtually closed. It’s an elite machine.
But that’s not true throughout Apple. It’s not true with the iPhone.
When it comes to mobile Internet data, the iPhone is the 800-pound gorilla. People don’t browse the Web with their Blackberries, Samsungs or Razrs. They do with the iPhone.
This has caused a massive sea change in the mobile business. Carriers are boosting their digital capacity. Both the LiMo and Google Android are responses to the new reality.
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