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ARM-Powered Laptops To Increase Linux Market Share
Charbax writes "Last April, Microsoft argued that it controlled the netbook OS market for devices sold in certain Microsoft-friendly US retail stores, while ABI Research claims that Linux actually has 32% of the worldwide netbook market, and that its market-share is growing. At the recent Netbook World Summit in Paris France, Aaron J. Seigo, Community leader at the KDE Foundation, and Arnaud Laprévote, CTO at Mandriva Linux, give us their estimation for next year's Linux market share (video) in the consumer laptop market. Their estimation is that Linux will dominate in ARM-powered laptops and that those may take over a significant share of the overall laptop market by their significantly cheaper prices (as low as $80), longer battery life (as long as 20-40 hours on a small battery using the Pixel Qi screens), as well as lower size and weight. Running some of the Chromium OS builds for ARM available shortly and having a full browser experience on those cheaper and better ARM-powered Linux laptops could make it a significant mass market success to shake up the Intel and Microsoft consumer PC/laptop monopoly in its boots."
Yeaaahhh!!!!
Now, if they meant always on, if I had a kid I'd much rather give him a nice $1000 laptop rather than a crap laptop and $500+/year cellular data subscription.
LoL, you would give a child a $1000 laptop... You must be some kind of idiot...
Of course it doesn't use their EXISTING games and apps. It's a whole new system. That's like complaining that your new Civic doesn't use the same parts as you had bought for your Ford Focus. Basically, no shit Sherlock.
And what will they use instead? Some shitty web-based clone that has a fraction of the features, stores its data on an untrusted third-party server, and is virtually unusable? You realize that those aren't selling points, right?
Anyone can use GMail with any ISP's mail system. Figure it out.
Most people don't want to, even if they can. Why would I want to use GMail's crippled interface? Even Outlook is more enjoyable to use, for fuck's sake. And Outlook is nothing compared to Thunderbird.
Oh, I'm glad to hear that a $1000+ Apple Macbook works "perfectly fine" for elementary browsing. Hope she got the local taxpayers' money worth out of it vs a $100 ARM-based system.
This is a typical response I'd expect from the sort of clueless motherfucker who thinks that shitty ARM-based netbooks running Chrome OS are somehow good. She runs specialized educational software that only runs on a Mac, you dirty faggot.
Good try, you ass reamer. Next time try to put together a cogent argument.