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NMC Interviews Minimo Founders
Gentu writes "NewMobileComputing (NMC) features an interview with Doug Turner and Chris Hoffman, the leaders of the Minimo project. Minimo is a Gecko-based browser built for PDAs and other mobile devices and shows already a lot of promise."
Eh did you even read the article? This thing is not targeted at end users but at pda/smartphone manufacturers. A lot of high end smartphones don't run windows and never will. These phones need browsers too and minimo seems like a really valid option in a field where currently opera (and not IE) is the browser of choice. If this thing takes off, there will be several millions of minimo users in a couple of years. That's a huge market. If by that time you are still stuck with your ubercool ms pocket pc, a nice, unintended side effect will be that you can still install oss software updates on your otherwise obsolete and unsupported device. But that is strictly for geeks, as you argued quite convincingly.
BTW. the thing is crossplatform. It would surprise me if it wouldn't be ported to pocketpc (it probably was months ago). It's just very unlikely that a smartphone/pda manufacturer is going to bundle a non MS browser with it so you'll have to forgive the minimo developers for having more important things to do.
Jilles