This is a very quick post but I had do, given my earlier post on Android vs iPhone.Eric Raymond has posted this blog and if I disagreed a little with the earlier blog entry, this one has me really quite irritated.
Essentially :-
- It is silly to equate the PC market with the handset market
- Err… So “Unix” won did it? Now I thought Linux wasn’t Unix….
- So windows was successful because it provided a platform for other people to make money..and Apple has provided a way to help developers make money, and ensures consumers don’t install rubbish on their phones and that’s bad?
- WinMo isn’t comparable to Android – but Java is and that hardly created an exciting apps ecosystem
- Oh and Symbian is open sourced because its backers know it’s dead