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No, you have a point about open systems in general, to which I agree wholeheartedly, I simply referring to consumer-facing devices. And if the consumer really
by mishmash 17y ago
No, you have a point about open systems in general, to which I agree wholeheartedly, I simply referring to consumer-facing devices.
And if the consumer really wanted an open system, again Linux on the desktop (Ubuntu?) should be have much more market share than it does.
- JulianMorrison 17y agoThe consumer doesn't have to want an open system. The importance is that they're there, keeping the others honest.
- papachito 17y ago> And if the consumer really wanted an open system, again Linux on the desktop (Ubuntu?) should be have much more market share than it does. Not really, the thing is that MS has a monopoly on the desktop, hard to reverse that trend. Look at Apple, even with their billions of dollars in revenue, they only get 5% of the desktop, Linux is at 1-2% with $0 in campaigning, so not that bad really.