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Android is the grey goo of operating systems, and it's almost breathtaking to realize that a dragged-out Linux will close out next year as the single most relev
by jpxxx 14y ago
Android is the grey goo of operating systems, and it's almost breathtaking to realize that a dragged-out Linux will close out next year as the single most relevant and dominant OS on Earth.
The only remaining question mark in my mind: how much might it eventually sell into the portable PC market? (Beyond the natural cannibalism of mobiles blunting PC sales)
- Zigurd 14y ago_"it's almost breathtaking to realize that a dragged-out Linux will close out next year as the single most relevant and dominant OS on Earth"_ Two things about that: 1. The price of admission to the OS business is to come up with a better kernel than Linux, with better driver support. If that price is higher than the benefit a new kernel will deliver to end-users, it won't happen. 2. The center of gravity in OS innovation is in the managed language runtime and middleware, where Android has done a great job (while Microsoft failed to capitalize on the userland power of the CLR, MSIL, and C# and other CLR languages).
- jpxxx 14y agoTruth and truth.