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LiMo Updates Mobile Linux Platform, Verizon Wireless to Deploy LiMo Handset in 2009

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Come on people... how many mobile OS's do we need?

Feb 9, 2009, 12:49 PM

Windows Mobile
OSX Mobile (iPhone)
Android (Google)
Symbian (Nokia)
Garnet (Palm)
webOS (Palm)
TouchWiz (Samsung)
LiMo

All of these OS's make it bad for developers who would like to write apps for the masses. Now they have to port it over to multiple OS's to maximize sales... but that will increase development costs.

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Overmann

Feb 9, 2009, 3:44 PM

You forgot Blackberry OS...

Also, TouchWiz is an interface, not an OS.

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doomtroll

Feb 9, 2009, 7:19 PM

Windows Mobile ;Proprietary
OSX Mobile (iPhone) :Unix (FreeBSD Based)
Android (Google) :Linux Based
Symbian (Nokia) :Open Source
Garnet (Palm) :Linux Based
webOS (Palm) :Linux Based
TouchWiz (Samsung) 😛roprietary
LiMo :Linux Based
Blackberry 😛roprietary

Not a lot of variety really.

and besides, the Smartphone market everyday looks more & more like the PC market. Meaning you will have much more to choose from later on down the road.

I think its a good thing.

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EliteABombAZ

Feb 9, 2009, 8:28 PM

I know many of them are Linux based, but that doesn't mean they all run the same software. And the PC market only has 3 major players... Windows, OSX and Linux.

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Menno

Feb 10, 2009, 9:14 AM

There will be as many platforms as people purchase. Even if they are obscure and buggy, people would still complain if they didn't exist because they wouldn't have choice.

It's the same attitude that has people as "Is this all you have?" when you show them the 30 different phones you have in stock.

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drantin

Feb 10, 2009, 11:50 PM

And you all left off OpenMoko (Linux-based, open source, runs on the Neo1973, NeoFreeRunner and related phones)

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