On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Oron Peled <oron@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Friday, 8 בJune 2012 20:07:20 Gerry Reno wrote: >> > On 06/08/2012 01:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> > > That is only assuming that Windows on ARM is successful, of which so >> > > far >> > > there's been precious little indication. >> > >> > There is a tidal wave of these PC ARM devices coming: >> > >> > http://www.itworld.com/hardware/240039/qualcomm-targets-pcs-takes-aim- >> intels-ultrabooks >> >> Hmmm... we've seen this "Windows-on-non-x86" movie twice before: >> - Remember Alpha's? Digital (RIP) really thought MS would give them the >> keys to the kingdom. There was a released version. It was good enough >> to frighten Intel at the time (which was probably the reason MS did >> it). Linux sold manyfolds more Alpha's than Windows. >> >> - Ahhh, and of course MS found new suckers who bought the same >> used story few years later (yes, I'm talking about Windows/PPC >> that lived a very short life). >> >> So far, MS failed misserably in the cellular space so there's a good >> chance their exclusionary move on ARM will only help convince vendors >> that shipping Androids (and by extension other Linuces) is safer bet. >> >> -- >> > > I heard (a rumor?) that MS has 100,000 phones in the public. Granted, it's > not much, but it might be a start. Shocking!! There's over 700,000 Android device activations every day! 250m odd devices... they have a little catch up to do! -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
