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Mobile GNU and Linux: Not Just Android

Posted in GNU/Linux, Google at 7:19 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: Addressing the misconception that only Android counts when it comes to Linux-based operating systems in mobile devices

WHILE it is true that Android is conquering the market of mobile devices (including tablets, which outsell laptops [1]) and that it dominates among the Linux-powered platforms, Android is far from the only game in town. To give just a few new examples, Firefox OS shows real momentum on the low end, with some hardware backers and even support from Google [2], the maker of Android which snubs Windows Phone (for the same type of app). Putting aside some other players like Jolla, Ubuntu Mobile and a few others, it turns out that out of the ashes of MeeGo (destroyed in covert means by Microsoft moles in Nokia) comes a Tizen-based tablet. Systena is making/distributing/selling it [3].

What a great time to be promoting GNU and Linux. They’re becoming standard and they are being preloaded on many devices; Windows is not even an option. Microsoft in general is becoming just a criminal patent leech, trying to feed its employees using fraud and racketeering. More on that in our next post… █

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  1. 85M More Tablet PCs Will Ship In 2013 Than Notebooks
  2. Google releases YouTube app for Firefox OS

    Microsoft’s Windows phone may be struggling to get Google‘s official YouTube app, the Android maker has made its official YouTube app available for the free and open source mobiles operating system Firefox OS.

  3. First Tizen tablet ships to developers

    Systena began shipping what appears to be the first new mobile device to run the Linux-based Tizen OS. Aimed at developers in Japan, the Systena tablet runs Tizen 2.1 on a quad-core, 1.4GHz Cortex-A9 system-on-chip, features a 10.1-inch (1920 x 1200) display, and offers 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage.

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