RE: Greed kills: Why smartphone lock-in will fail and open source win

I recommend that you read Greed kills: Why smartphone lock-in will fail and open source win yourself, but to summarize, esr predicts that iPhone OS vs. Android will play out the same way that the early PC wars played out back in the day.

There are two things I think are relevant to this argument. One is the recent Apple-HTC patent suits. The other is giving a definition of "win" and "fail". I won't comment on the patent suits because I have no expertise whatsoever there, and those I rely on to digest such things for me haven't had time to comb through the details of the patents yet. The fact that the suits exist though seems to be a significant departure from how things played out in the PC wars.

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