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Jul 17, 2010 12:34 PM
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SJVN, our great prophet of Linux, constantly predicts the future. Examples:
- I predicted that Oracle, which is a Linux company, was going to let OpenSolaris die [...]
- I expect Office 2010 to stagnate on the market.
- You can expect Acer and many other OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to be showing off their Android Linux-powered tablets at the Computex show in Taipei in early June. You’ll see these Linux iPad clones in stores by the 3rd quarter of 2010. You can expect these to be available in the $299 to $399 price-range.
For more examples just search SJVN’s blog, and make sure you don’t miss it when our scryer gets his crystal ball out the next time.
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You mean like, “In 2009, more Linux-powered desktops will sell than will Windows-powered ones”? http://blogs.computerworld.com/desktop_linux_tidal_wave_alert
More like this, “Since they are positioning to bring netbooks and thin-clients running Ubuntu and/or Google’s ChromeOS/Android, ARM processors will kill the PC. Microsoft will regret their decision not to support ARM on Windows 7.”
http://whatwillweuse.com/2010/07/01/what-will-i-buy/
Don’t forget http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/Suns-Best-Buy-Ever-MySQL/.
Hey, is this some sort of competition? SJVN has been so hopelessly wrong for so hideously long that I’m sure I can find a prediction that involves more than just a hardware company trashing itself for no good reason inside the space of eighteen months …
In fact, Ill even make my own prediction.
Knock-off “iPad clones” based on ARM and featuring that well-known FOSS favourite, Android, will die a horrible flaming death before the end of 2012.
Why? They’re going to be designed for cloud computing, which no iPad customer would want. They’re going to be almost bereft of usable applications (CurseOfLinuxDesktop™). They’re going to be pitifully underpowered, what with using ARM and so on. (Nothing wrong with ARM processors in RTOS — they’re just not designed for an iPad.)
And to cap it all, the price point is ridiculous. It’s not remotely competitive against a full-featured XP netbook, and it’s highly unlikely to match up well against a Microsoft tablet powered by Win7mobile, or whatever they choose to call it.
(I should point out that it’s not even much of a deal compared to an actual iPad, which is the tablet I’d buy…)
you are forgetting that most people don’t know that they don’t have flash support on the iPad. and many of them upon using it and like WTF I can’t play an online clip!!!
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