PostPC/ the transformable netbook/tablet / & linux can "get in the game".

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None of these are really information packed articles.

They all have a "nugget"

This one says that Windows7 on netbooks has shrunk from 8 percent to 2 percent, not that Linux has taken market share but that netbook sales are way down.

Then it goes on to discuss the tablet and that Linux has a window on the tablet because the Win8 is a few years down the road.

But then, brings up that we have had "touch" technology for a long time, it is a keyboard, and also a touch screen and then

discusses a "twisty" netbook that is a tablet with an attached keyboard that twists around.

He is not saying it will change the world but that it is midway between the netbook which has great limitations and the tablet which has it's own limitations.

But, an important part of the article is that Window7 hasn't cut it on tablets and Windows8 is down the road and that Linux can get into the game on the "middle form factor".

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/h...or-linux/17806

The below is a very general article along the same lines that Linux has a chance to get into the game in a small, not a big, way, mainly in "crossover priced hardware" from the tower to the tablet/whatever.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/h...or-linux/17806


a 2010 article on the Lenovo that transforms from a laptop to a "slate".

an article on LeNovo's thing that was a kind of book cover that had a linux powered tablet and also would accept a windows based device and also have a keyboard, also a "skeleton" to put an ipad into.

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[kapil]

Re: PostPC/ the transformable netbook/tablet / & linux can "get in the game".

though linux has ample opportunity to enter the tablet market but i'm afraid this is not going to happen.

Reason 1: ballmor (or whatever his name is) was right in saying that to thrive in present scenario one must be a part of an ecosystem. iOS, android and now windows has been developing very good eco system. linux does not have such ecosystem and in foreseeable future i don't see any change in that..unless canonical goes aggressive. which i am sure it wont.

Reason 2: normal user (read: no techy) are not bothered about what OS they are using on any device unless it does not give what he wants. with app store and android market it was possible for normal user just to use the device for all sort of thing he wanted to do. now coming to linux we have the concept of repoistory. but none two distro have a common way to get those applications down to our system. there may be technological reasons for that. but normal user just don't care about it.

Reason 3: there is no easy way to install linux on the tablet/mobile devices like it is on laptop. and it is getting even worse with window's fast boot thing.

but linux can still get in the game if..and in that order..
1. make people vigilant about loss of privacy by iOS and android.
2. device a easy way to dual boot iPad and android phone/tablet.
3. make one of the app store (i find one in ubuntu the best) standard, at least for all *ubuntu s.

oh it will be so awesome. to enjoy chromium and its app on tablet, enjoy whichever movie on tablet without conversion, using libreoffice like business apps..etc etc.

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Re: PostPC/ the transformable netbook/tablet / & linux can "get in the game".

nice, thoughtful, comments vu2ickle.

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