Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Dannen then concludes that “Macs and PCs as we know them won’t be going anywhere, but as netbooks and smartphones proliferate, the total marketshare of Internet-capable devices enjoyed by Apple and Microsoft will be greatly diluted” which means Apple and Microsoft will need to play nicely with Linux, as this is “the nature of a revolution”.
Well, Chris Dannen, when you want to get some real work done, you’ll certainly be turning to a real desktop, notebook, or netbook, not one of these “web” devices with little processing power that relies on a non-flaky Internet connection.
With both Intel and AMD working to create “thin and light” netbook style computers that have much more power than the Intel Atom processor, the market for cheap netbooks will certainly be increasing.
It’s obvious that Windows 7, or Mac OS X on a Mac netbook, will be the operating systems of choice for those who want to do just more than consume some digital media.
As for Windows 7, Microsoft is specifically ensuring it will work on netbooks, and if it needs to sell the software at cheaper rates to compete with free Linux, it will do so – just as it has done with Windows XP today.
2009 isn’t the year of the Linux revolution after all, but more of the same delusional fantasy land that Linux users have been living in the past few years.
Remember: if you want to get real work done, you use a computer, not a smartphone. With today’s netbooks offering 10-inch screens, 92% sized keyboards that are actually pleasurable to type on (unlike BlackBerry keys or those on the Asus Eee PC 701 series), people can actually do more than just consume media.
If you want to only consume media, then get an iPod Touch, an iPhone or some other handheld media player, or something like the Dell Mini 9 which has a keyboard that simply isn’t designed for real work.
The Linux revolution on the desktop, notebook or netbook may yet come in the years ahead, but it certainly won’t be 2009, and it certainly won’t be through even less powerful netbooks than are available today.
David Bass
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