kamm

How Big Will Android Get?

On Oct 08 05:32 PM JamesApple wrote:

> iPhone OS is a fully certified Unix,

Ehhhh?
WTF?
It's not even a real multi-tasking OS....
You are either completely and hopelessly clueless or you are playing from the cheesiest crappy PR playbook of Apple - you know, the one aimed at ignorant small investors who tend to eat this kind of BS, namely that iPhone's OS equals OS X - it IS NOT. Stop spreading BS, please.

iPhone OS != OS X

> running on multi-million dollar
> superservers serving the world's biggest public and private
> enterprises.

Yeah, right... iPhone OS is running on servers...
Seriously: just WTF are you talking about? :D
iPhone OS is running on "multibi-bi-bi-mmmmiii... dollar superservers" - I think I will start using this in my signline over at macrumors.com...

BTW since we are at it: please, show me a SINGLE million-dollar server that runs OS X - no, not multi-million, just ONE server with a $1M dollar pricetag including OS X.

Just FYI: Apple's Server SUCKS. It's a nice toy for SMBs and might serve other purposes but Apple has nothing to do with serious hardware at all - it's a newcomer with Intel and even Intel does not really scale well beyond the SMB market's size (= ~32-way max per server). Their (Intel) only half-decent solution was the 64-bit Itanium-family (at least it scales up to 128) but it's been pretty much dead for years now (its next Tukwila core is being postponed since early 2007), literally HP's Superdome being the only 'en masse' shipped IA HPC system (like 95%+ of all IA64 sales), which is even less impressive if we consider that HP was Itanium's original father, khm. Of course, it's not OS X...
If you want correct scaling on a massive scale, talk to Sun (SPARC) or IBM (Power) - and neither runs OS X, mind you.

> Android, webOS are derivatives of the open source Linux community
> running on various classes of business machines.

Well, unless you meant the community running on various machines :D your sentence, once again, not making any sense.

FYI: Android IS linux (but that's a general term for a group of Unixes or "Unix-like" OSes that are using the Linux kernel) and WebOS is also using the linux kernel but they cannot be more different: while Android is open source and OEM-ready since its inception, WebOS is a proprietary Palm operating system (sans its kernel.)
By design Android is capable to run on just about anything from a phone to warship, WebOS is only trying to be a mobile OS, nothing more, nothing less.

Ahhh, did I mention that Android actually DOES run on a "supercomputer", Freescale's Power platform...?


> For example, the
> IBM zOS mainframe can host 12000 concurrent Linux partitions (how's
> that for virtualization?), all the way down to a $299 Acer Aspire
> Netbook. Asia and Europe host millions of open source Linux implementations.
> Linux is by far the leading server OS over all other OS including
> Unix itself like HPUX. Linux open source projects proliferate throughout
> the universe and is the foundation for cloud computing and the future
> for social as well as commercial computing.
>
> The world is made up of two sides, the public side and the private
> side, all the interceptions in between are also categorized as public
> and private.
>
> iPhone will completely capture the private side of computing and
> Linux/Unix will completely capture the public side.
>
> Rim will be the first of a whole generation of phone making misfits
> which are extremely hardwired to the old unusable OSs like the blackberry
> OS in meeting the needs today, and tomorrow. Unlike Motorola which
> shed the old technologies without any baggages, and Palm shedding
> its old Palm OS offerings, Rim lives and dies by its blackberry OS,
> therefore Rim is getting killed first by Apple, then by and Android
> movement. There is no doubt in this.

Very nice and long just completely irrelevant - iPhone's OS has NOTHING to do with normal Unixes and its big bro OS X has nothing to do with any kind of HPC market (forget supercomputing.)

Beyond RIM's Blackberry OS Android is the *ONLY* mobile OS that has any kind of "enterprise-readiness" - iPhone, as a result of its super snappiness, is severely crippled even for a modern smartphone OS and WinMo v6.5 is just a broken architecture, period.