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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 29 August 2007 | |
  
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According to another market researcher Canalys, Symbian presently dominates the smartphone OS market with a 72.5 percent share in 2006. Carlaw added, "Linux is benefiting from growing support in the handset OEM community, most notably Motorola, but also Nokia with less traditional types of devices aimed at mobile broadband applications. The rise of mobile broadband and the impact that this has upon device convergence and format plays into the hands of Linux." Another recent survey, by Evans Data Corporation, identified Nokia's S60 application development platform, which runs on Symbian, as the most popular with developers everywhere except North America. The future for Linux is not entirely rosy, however. ABI says: "The vertical and horizontal fragmentation that has plagued this market continues to be a concern..[and] the recent patent infringement assertions from Microsoft - that Linux, in its generic form, infringes upon 235 of its patents - is an ongoing concern. Many Linux pundits point to this as being old hat, while others indicate that there is no smoke without fire."{moscomment} |
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