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| Linux to dominate MID market |
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Monday, August 04 2008 @ 02:57 PM EDT
Contributed by: sde
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Linux will outperform Windows Mobile and other rival operating systems (OSes) in the mobile Internet device (MID) market, says ABI Research. Led by Moblin, LiMo, and Maemo, the Linux MID market should hit 50 million shipments a year by 2013, says the research group.
Only one of the three main players -- the LiMo Foundation -- has active plans to cover smartphones, as well as MIDs. In fact, LiMo's real focus is on phones, and the group announced seven new LiMo-compliant handsets only today. At the same time, by also supporting MIDs, it stands to increase the target hardware options available to software vendors targeting LiMO mobile phones, which should eventually support native Linux applications (in addition to Java and "web widget" applications supported today) if LiMO succeeds in its mission to standardize Linux for mobile phones. Read more
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