June 7, the launch of Apple iPhone 4 made the bar of the computer industry for what a compelling product should be. Among the millions of devices connected to the Internet, the products of the mobile take most part of the technology market and Apple is clearly in the head.
While Microsoft has been relegated to a loser in Mobile Computing, Linux has emerged as the main rival Apple. Companies such as Nokia, Sony, Samsung and Panasonic with Linux as the basis for many of its products. Linux-based Google Android smartphone operating system and the operating system Chrome PC, Intel and the operating system for mobile Meego Nokia and Hewlett-Packard recently acquired webOS Palm.
We’re moving to a tech world with Apple on one side and virtually everyone else on the other. Linux needs to more effectively compete with Steve Jobs and the magic of Apple. It is important that open-source products add more value to users all be free. The free software must also fabulous.
Cryptic commands and poor user interfaces have typified Linux since it exploded in popularity among techies in the 1990s. This is understandable, dominating in the Linux server market. Provide a good user experience is not the most important among the white lights of the data center.
In consumer electronics, is another story. Mobile Linux vendors must increase their technical investments by working on key open-source projects to make every component used in Linux devices benefit the user experience. This includes the manufacture of quick start, better access and smoother graphics display. In the server market, IBM made the investments to improve Linux for information technology workers a decade ago. The wireless industry should unite behind Linux do the same thing.
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