On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 20:07 +0100, Hartmut Noack wrote: > 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. 101% ACK _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
