Is There an Echo in the Room? II

ThirdPipe has said before that Open Source willl be a disrupter in the telecommunications market. But hey don’t take our word for it –

Open source is about to hit the cell phone industry hard. It may even take with it one of the early darlings of US smart phones — a halfway station to open cell phone technology — the iPhone. Apple will be announcing the results of opening up the iPhone to third party developers next week at Apple’s WWDC 08. But the iPhone SDK is accessible only to existing Mac developers. That’s not open enough. ABI Research is estimating that somewhere near one quarter of the world’s smartphones will be Linux-based in 5 years. (http://www.abiresearch.com/abiprdisplay.jsp?pressid=1109) This is the iPhone’s real competition: Linux.

Where Linux goes, the consumer wins.

Were this discussion a poker reality show, I would open with Android, raise with community development and check with free community support. Like the man says, “… the consumer wins.”

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