<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">MArk Shuttleworth's statement here <a href="https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/10/30/statement-on-ibm-acquisition-of-red-hat">https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/10/30/statement-on-ibm-acquisition-of-red-hat</a></div><div>I make no comment.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 00:18, Gerald Henriksen <<a href="mailto:ghenriks@gmail.com">ghenriks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:49:05 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:<br>
<br>
>> "Will Amazon, Google, and Microsoft now run out and buy SUSE, Ubuntu,<br>
>> Apache, etc? Yes.<br>
>> <br>
>> "Will there be a mad rush to create new Linux distros? No. I think that boat<br>
>> has already sailed and further Linux branding won?t happen, at least not for<br>
>> traditional business reasons.<br>
><br>
>Google already has one. It's called "Android". Microsoft has been<br>
>flirting with Linux for the first time in forever as every one of their<br>
>efforts to compete with Android and IOS has underwhelmed, if not<br>
>flopped. At this point Linux actually owns a substantial chunk of the<br>
>desktop, in the form of Android on tablets that have largely replaced or<br>
>augmented actual computers,<br>
<br>
Not even close. Android on tablets is essentially dead, they only<br>
thing the remaining tablets are used for is media viewers.<br>
<br>
The Android app developers never developed tablet versions of the<br>
apps, and Google dropped the ball yet again.<br>
<br>
Google's latest attempt, announced several weeks back, is an attempt<br>
at a ChromeOS tablet...<br>
<br>
And when that fails, perhaps we will finally see Fuchsia.<br>
<br>
> and is just under Apple in the phone market<br>
<br>
Depends on how you measure, some ways Android is ahead.<br>
<br>
But the big problem is that few people are making money from Android,<br>
in part because few Android users buy apps.<br>
<br>
>with M$ a joke down near the bottom in both domains. <br>
<br>
Microsoft existed the phone business several years ago, and at least<br>
in terms of usefulness for doing anything other than watching a movie<br>
their tablet offerings are far ahead of anything Android. It's not a<br>
coincidence that the latest iPad Pros announced today look like<br>
Surface Pros.<br>
<br>
>But Android is<br>
>vulnerable -- lots of people dislike it and dislike the play store and<br>
>all that goes with it and with iOS. <br>
<br>
The only people who hate the iOS store are certain techies, and<br>
certain players big enough that they dislike the percentage.<br>
<br>
The users love it because it is hassle free and has none of the<br>
virus/malware/etc issues that they experience elsewhere.<br>
<br>
Google Play is vulnerable because Google refuses to invest in it and<br>
the developers increasingly leary of getting locked out with no way to<br>
appeal the decision.<br>
<br>
> IBM has the resources to actually<br>
>make an OPEN tablet/phone OS if they choose to and are at least as<br>
>likely as M$ is to be able to step into the market and steal away<br>
>mindshare from Android and iOS -- if they couple it to a slick AI<br>
>component, maybe semi-proprietary, they might even jump to the head of<br>
>the line as Alexa and Siri etc leave a great deal to be desired.<br>
<br>
Any attempt at an open tablet/phone would require signficant money and<br>
there is no way IBM is going to invest the money in hardware and<br>
software to try it.<br>
<br>
Say want one wants about Apple, but they have had the best ARM<br>
processors for mobile for a while now and noone appears to be close to<br>
catching up anytime soon.<br>
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