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| Authored by: complex_number on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 01:34 AM EDT |
To have one product and even one that we love dominate the world is not good. I
am happy that we have choice in Linux Distros but IMHO, Android is at risk of
becoming an evolutionary dead end especially if the majority of devices running
it carry the Samsung Brand.
Just do a little research into the pre-siminans of Madagascar and you will begin
to understand what I mean.
I am just getting a bit fearful that Samsung is well on the way to world
domination in all things electronic. Then it will be everything in the home (the
already make many TV's and domestic applicances).
Think of it as the 'Any colour you like as long as it is Black' saying about the
Model-T changed to, 'Any device you like as long as it is branded Samsung'.
How long before Samsung open their own stores all over Europe/N. America and
stopping/fixing the supply chain to their competitors?
What future then for Best-Buy and all the rest?
Now, ask yourself that question again...
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 12:28 PM EDT |
Fragmentation is one problem....nothing prevents fragmentation (for example,
Android) except the resources required to make the new version.
But, there's another important issue with Linux: While it is designed with
multiple users that distrust each other in mind, it is not designed from the
ground up for multiple programs that distrust each other and are also distrusted
by the system's owner. Android is a step in the right direction, but it still
supports malware and, like Linux, still has too much code (1 million lines of
Kernel).
This concept of distinctly bounded trust is already widespread, in the form of
various types of virtual machines, but will eventually pervade software and
hardware. An excellent paradigm of this is the Unix pipe, which allows easy
composition of distinct commands.
(Christenson)
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