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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 30 June 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 "Within three years, however, the notion of telecommunications companies trying to secure an advantage through exclusive rights to a handset will be dead." McCabe points to three factors that will drive this change: Android (and similar relatively open platforms), virtualisation, and cloud computing. I'll deal with what I think is the least important first. Even though McCabe is looking three years ahead, I'm not sure that virtualisation will be a big deal. Firstly, the CPUs used in mobile handsets are relatively low performance parts. Virtualisation, especially where it is also necessary to emulate different hardware, is a big ask. And even if you want to run HTC's software on a iPhone or iPhone software on a Touch, why do you think the companies would allow it? Doing the work in the cloud is going to be more significant, but we're not there yet. Look how much outcry there was when the original iPhone required that third-party applications be web-based rather than running directly on the handset. What about virtualisation. and why do I think Android is the key to McCabe's argument? Please read on. |
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