[Info-vax] [OT] Linux use, was: Re: Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-19 18:00:42 +0000, Paul Sture said:

> I gather that there's a lot of fragmentation within Android too.

The whole of the client market is in turmoil.

Google's most recent agreement tries to target the fragmentation, along 
with the existing requirements around use of the Android marks and 
related.

<http://www.pcworld.com/article/2014089/google-targets-android-fragmentation-with-updated-terms-for-sdk.html> 


Though Kindle, Nook, Baidu, CyanogenMod and some other projects have 
already forked from Android.

<http://source.android.com>

One of the larger questions here is what Samsung — the only bunch 
that's reportedly really making any serious money with Android — will 
decide to do.

<http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/14/google-vs-samsung/>

Also with what Google will do here — with both Android and Motorola — 
given their revenue business is advertising, and presently reportedly 
on the desktop and not a whole lot from the mobile devices, and in 
response to the revenues at Samsung and Apple.

<http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/14/the-android-income-statement/>

Just to keep things more even interesting in mobile, there's also an 
effort arriving from Ubuntu, RIM reporteldy has multiple new Blackberry 
10 handsets...

<http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone>
<http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android>

There's Redmond...  Windows sales numbers are down (again), and Windows 
numbers are "squishy", and Windows Phone 8 doesn't seem to be getting 
traction...

<http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/how-microsoft-fudges-windows-8-sales-figures-207497> 

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/jul/12/microsoft-pc-sales-data-aalysis> 

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9796963/PC-sales-down-as-Windows-8-fails-to-excite.html> 


And Apple has, well, who knows what Apple has in the pipeline...


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