(OT) Re: Unity ROCKS!!!

[Justin Stanczak]

I think the momentum of an open source project the size of Android will be
hard to beat. What would be the point? I'm saying Linux should ride the app
developer wave of Android to make more apps for Linux. I would disagree
about Linux not being mature. Businesses chase consumers. If
the consumers use Android desktop apps, then businesses will follow. Phone
app, or desktop app, what's the difference now a days. That line is getting
blurred.


On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Isaac Hummel <isaac at daedaleus.com> wrote:

> On 05/02/2011 07:48 PM, Justin Stanczak wrote:
>
>> Just wanted to jump in here. I want to say first free alternatives for
>> windows applications are great. They work just fine for me. However I have a
>> hard time getting windows users to use them. To that end, the single thing
>> keeping Linux from pulling an Android on Windows is applications PERIOD.
>> Linux is ready, but we have a hairball clogging the drain, and it's called
>> MS Office, Adobe, and video games. You can pretty much put video games at
>> the top of that list. When games go, Unity I'm looking at you (the game dev
>> ide, not ubuntu), others will follow.
>>
> Actually, applications /aren't/ the only thing keeping Linux from pulling
> an Android on Windows. PC operating systems being a mature market is the
> real killer.
>
> In the era of (true) smartphones ushered in by the iPhone, Android was the
> only competitor for a long time. Windows Phone 7 is around now, but it's
> still behind both Android and the iPhone (in marketshare, functionality, and
> apps) and only kept from falling into irrelevance by buying Nokia's huge,
> but decaying, marketshare.
>
> As for the iPhone, true to the Apple model, they made the hardware and the
> software and wouldn't license either one to third parties. Android is to iOS
> what Windows was to Mac, essentially. If Linux wanted to pull an Android on
> Windows, it would have to go back to 1984 and establish itself as the open
> alternative to Apple ahead of Microsoft to do it.
>
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