● 10.19.11
●● Android 4 is Linux Checkmate
Posted in Apple, GNU/Linux, Google, Microsoft at 5:03 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Linux is beating Microsoft and Apple, both on the technical side and the sales side
IN OUR latest batch of links we included quite a few stories about Android 4.0.x, which is deployed on phones that are better than Apple’s (and any other company’s line of products). Short of patent extortion, it seems unlikely that Apple and Microsoft can do anything about it now. In coming posts we are therefore going to track and tackle patent attacks on Android, which now involve lobbyists, fake ‘reports’, litigation (directly or through trolls), and AstroTurfing.
Before we proceed to some stories of interest (most likely tomorrow) we’ll leave readers with some links of interest:
Microsoft Windows Phone Sales Dismal in the First Year; Stock Awaits EarningsIt has been more than a year since Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) launched its new smartphone OS – Windows Phone 7. Sales of Windows Phone devices have been below expectations according to Steve Ballmer, but we didn’t have any concrete numbers until analysts recently revealed that Microsoft’s Windows Phone unit sales were around 1.4 million – much lower than competing platforms like Google‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android and Apple‘s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS. In comparison, Google is seeing nearly 550 device activations worldwide per day while Apple saw more than a million iPhone 4S pre-orders on the very first day. Microsoft had around 1.3% share of the total units sold in the past yearSite MeteriPhone 4S Siri Not Working Properly All The Time Say Users [Siri Problems Spotted Already, Not the Funny Kind; There May be a Fix For That Down Time]Apple’s ‘Siri’ Means What in Japanese? MSNBC gets credit, for rounding up some of the funnier bits, as does Gizmodo, which claims that within the country of Georgia, the term “siri” is common slang for a rather pornographical variation on “penis”.
This whole Siri hype is nonsensical because Android had that well over a year ago. Apple has truly become juvenile, aggressive, and arrogant. It is already making up excuses for not selling as many hypePhones as it hoped to sell and its phones are inferior on the hardware side (see the links posted earlier), which makes hypePhone the “Android for kids”. Linux is all grown up. █
“Android is the Linux desktop dream come true.” –Google’s Chris DiBona
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