On Feb 1, 3:24 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course, there's the free market. If things were always like today, I > wouldn't be worried. But listening to opinions that see the marked > divided by iPhone and Android, I'd be worried in perspective.
I think that the smartphone market will mature in the next few years and settle on three (maybe four) operating systems. That's not unlike many other IT areas - desktop OS (Windows, OS X, Linux), server OS (Windows, Linux, Unix - if you can lump all the different Unix versions together), commercial databases (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server), commercial app servers (IBM WebSphere, Oracle Weblogic, JBoss) and so on. Somehow, the disadvantages of having less choice and less competition are outweighed by the advantages of limitation (less effort required for developers, hardware / add-on manufacturers, and admins) at "three". I think in economy, mature markets are often dominated by a few players (e.g., Coke/Pepsi), too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
