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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 08:20, mike margerum wrote:
> Linux has a ways to go before it's any real competition to palm and m$
> but I do think eventually it will become a major player.
>
> I didnt say licensees didn't have to pay m$. You have to pay a per
> device royalty and that's fine. They just don't make you pay an initial
> large fee and a contract guaranteeing a minimum amount of royalties. I
> guess palm didnt want to dilute the market but I say let the companies
> fight it out and the best will rise to the top.
>
> Palm is limiting itself by only have a few major licensees, one of which
> pulled out of the U.S. market. They are bascially down to one major
> licensee at this point so why did they even bother spinning off?
>
> Branch out into things like media players and laptop replacements.
The Sony UX-50 was making a move in that direction, I thought. It's a shame
that OQO and the other hundred clones are going to move in and obliterate the
market by being x86-compatible. Kinda makes you worry about the PDA market
on the whole. Sharp are making a good example with their systems, and I
would have thought that Sharp's example was the proof that Linux is quite
usable.
Linux might be nothing in itself, but build an entire OS like Palm OS on _top_
of Linux, and then you're smoking. I would pay for that. :-)
And let's not forget that Linux is already _in_ the media market. Tivo,
anyone? And from what I've seen of it, Tivo is pretty rock solid, and no
usability qualms there, which seems to be most people's objections to the OS.
No usability qualms on devices like the A780, either.
TX
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