The purpose behind an open platform, or at least the spirit behind it, is to eliminate the confusion and fragmentation that results from having multiple competing proprietary systems. Instead, we're seeing confusion and fragmentation resulting from multiple competing open systems. I guess the industry's just naturally competitive.
In particular, there's a lot of competition for open source mobile platforms. The Limo Foundation just announced several new partners and devices, giving it a firm advantage in the competition against Google Android and Nokia's Symbian. Each camp has several heavyweights in their respective corners, but the smart ones are hedging their bets and joining up with more than one. Motorola for example, is a member of all three.
Regardless of which one emerges as dominant, I think the real innovation is going to come when the mobile industry is once and for all broken of the annoying habit of tying individual devices to specific carrier plans.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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