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They aren't huge growth areas in the anglosphere anymore, Ed: although smartphones and tablets may change this, they're still growing in the west somewhat, but
by electromagnetic 16y ago
They aren't huge growth areas in the anglosphere anymore, Ed: although smartphones and tablets may change this, they're still growing in the west somewhat, but are exploding colossally in the developing areas of the world like India and China.
These places still have huge piracy 'problems', but these will likely be resolved in the coming decade as these countries develop stronger intellectual property enforcement and will force all corporations to purchase legitimate licenses.
- nailer 16y ago> They aren't huge growth areas in the anglosphere anymore, Ed: although smartphones and tablets may change this, These don't run desktop OSs.
- electromagnetic 16y agoYet. Given that smartphones and tablets are now being produced with more powerful CPU's than netbooks, it's really only a matter of time.
- nailer 16y agoIf the desktop kernels still remain (which they may not due to realtime needs) the userspaces still need to change for touch UI. So if it happens, I don't expect the current desktop champions to suddenly get good at mobile.