[Ilugc] About Blackberry and M$
- From: toufeeqh@xxxxxxxxx (Toufeeq Hussain)
- Date: Mon Jul 3 20:26:39 2006
Hi Shiv,
/me playing devil's advocate here..
On 7/3/06, Sivasankar Chander <siva.ilugc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/3/06, Chakkaradeep C C <chaks.yoper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/jul/03ms.htm
News like these always threatens us somehow as M$ tries to capture the
Market by pouring MONEY....how far Linux is going to handle these...
Don't worry - Windows Mobile has been mostly a failure. Even the much-
ballyhooed Palm Treo 700w, which was hailed as a transition by Palm
away from PalmOS to Windows Mobile, has seen sales far lower than
expected. Palm will pull the plug and move back to PalmOS (most
probably as an app on an underlying Linux virtualizer) sooner or later.
OTOH,
The HP iPaq's (and the PocketPC line) have been hugely succesful in
the smartphone area. The Dell Axim x51 is a very good PDA if you have
multimedia needs. Palm OS based Palm LifeDrive is a huge failure.
The O2 XDA line is another good smartphone. Windows Mobile has found
it's way into multimedia players, the Toshiba Gigabeat S is a
excellent example, the UI is better than that of the iPod. HTC has
done wonders with the Mobile OS, the HTC Universal and the HTC Wizard
are great devices.
yes, there is Linux based stuff out there, Archos/iRiver (IIRC) are
huge Linux supporters, but as it stands I see Windows Mobile in the
forefront of PDA/smartphone technology.
In multimedia devices arena, Rockbox is good, but is again not backed
by any commercial vendor.
Maemo looks promising but the reviews of the Nokia 770 have not been
great. There seem to be no future commitments from Nokia on it though.
The GP2X is great again but has failed to pick up due to lack of
thrid-party support.
I'm waiting for gadgets using OpenMAX , but apart from the PS3(which
is huge) nobody else seems to bother about it.
The problem is , the FOSS world has the development environment
problem sorted out it's just that the big-fish are not biting the
bait. Motorola is an exception here, but then again they just want a
free OS which can run Java.
There is going to be a huge gap in the embedded OS space as Symbian
fails to meet requirements, and the way I see it, M$ seems to have
cornered all the players in the field to have a bite of the Windows
Mobile pie.
-Toufeeq
PS: Google for tech-jargon mentioned above ;)
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