Am 13.03.2013 13:53, schrieb Louigi Verona: > Patrick, > > 1. if you have other numbers, please post them, with sources. > > 2. I cannot agree that Android can be considered to be part of Linux > Desktop. Android is Googles OS with a Linux-Kernel, so is ChromeOS. And it has no real impact regarding issues like hardware-support because Android does not need to run on PC-Hardware, it does not even have a real USB-port. So some may ask: But it is still some sort of Linux no? Does that not mean, that Linux in general has arrived on the markets to get its share? It has not, nobody who speaks about Android to sell it, mentions Linux. Because Android is a product and more than 90% of the money, that Google spends to develop Android as a product is for marketing. Names matter in marketing, more than much else. Android is the brand to be pushed on the market, nothing else. Last time I checked, Canonical did the same about Ubuntu. End-user oriented media adapts that gratefully, they speak about Ubuntu and many do not even mention Linux in articles about Canonicals Distro. The money to promote Ubuntu is spent to promote Ubuntu, nothing else. This is, how marketing for end-users/consumers works. Quality does not sell, stability does not sell, freedom does not sell at all -- marketing does. Real bad quality and stability and maybe even severe lack of respect for the user can, in some cases, contradict marketing to some extent. But only, if there is an alternative, that is pushed to the market real hard with billions of Dollars behind it. MacOSX is such a competitor and it comes with better quality so nobody is bothered too much by the fact, that it slaps the face of the user even harder than Microsoft. Android is another and Ubuntu is a dwarf- if not microscopic player in that ring. Imagine, all the devs, that write free software *would* be payed decently for their good work. Sum up all the salaries and apply a multiplicator such as 100 and you got the figure needed to really push GNU/Linux on the market. > > 3. Steam arriving to Linux can make a change, I agree. What about video > drivers? This I am not sure. Even if video card companies notice the shift, > it will be a while until they actually begin actual support. Taking on yet > another platform is a lot of resources. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
