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Psion May Look To Linux For The Next Big Thing
An anonymous reader points out this "interesting interview with Psion founder Dr David Potter. It explores the reasons why Psion sold their share in Symbian to Nokia and why Potter believes that there is good future for Linux on "compact" notebooks and the like. Guy Kewney is a very well respected commentator on technology, he's been doing for a long time and I've always found his insights to be pretty spot on.
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They do Handhelds, right? I want a FreeBSD handheld. Cute mascot, established ports system, lots of support; FreeBSD has everything! :)
... just ignore me ...)
(Okay, I'm trolling
If you didn't point out there would be half-naked models in the screenshots, I would never have looked. Thanks!
Do you hear that Mr. Gates? That is the sound of inevitability.
Who do you get to be an expert to tell you something's not obvious? The least insightful person you can find? -J Roberts
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: Psion is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Psion community when
recently IDC confirmed that Psion accounts for less than a fraction of 1
percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft
survey which plainly states that Psion has lost more market share, this
news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Psion is collapsing
in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in
the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Psion's
future. The hand writing is on the wall: Psion faces a bleak future. In
fact there won't be any future at all for Psion because Psion is dying.
Things are looking very bad for Psion. As many of us are already aware,
Psion continues to lose market share. Brown ink flows like a river of
shit.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the rumors.
Cum leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of nig cum. How
many users of Caldera are there? Let's see. The number of SuSe versus
Caldera posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there
are about 7000/5 = 1400 Caldera users. Connectiva posts on Usenet are about
half of the volume of Caldera posts. Therefore there are about 700 users
of nig cum. A recent article put TurboLinux at about 80 percent of the Psion
market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 TurboLinux users.
This is consistent with the number of TurboLinux Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of SCO, abysmal sales and so on, TurboLinux
went out of business and was taken over by SCO who sell another
troubled OS. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet
another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Psion has steadily declined in market share.
Psion is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
Psion is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Psion
continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this
point in time. For all practical purposes, Psion is dead.
Fact: Psion is dead
GNAA rocks - cumming to your town soon!
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