Is the user space simply yielding to the skinny man from Cupertino?
Posted by moonwatcher at Thursday, August 18, 2011
HP and WebOS (AKA former Palm) just dropped out of the race.
This is getting scary, i mean the only players in the future of commercial operating systems are Apple, Google, Microsoft and kind of RIM with blackberry.
Blackberry has about as much chance of survival as the dinosaurs, or other canadian tech companies from the past for that matter (remember Matrox?). Microsoft is loosing market share on every possible front faster than a 1995 fiat looses oil. Google is playing a very risky game that might or might not secure it's future. And Apple, well Apple just keeps growing with no one even trying to stand in it's way.
It seems to me like the IT user space is simply yielding to the skinny man from Cupertino.
This is not healthy. I never thought I would say it, but if Microsoft won't do something really radical, really fast; and by radical i don't mean painting Windows 7 in a new color adding a superlative and calling it Windows 8, we are approaching a world dominated entirely by two companies...
Two wonderful companies, true. But two.
And power. Infinite power. Well it Corrupts.
