Symbian v. Linux: Who Will Win in Wireless?

It was Scott McNealy who made fun of me, a couple of short years back, for suggesting that users might care what operating system was inside their mobile phones. "You just switch it on !" he said. Not for the first time, Sun Microsystems’ CEO was living in the past. "These days, you have a choice between a dumb phone or a smart phone. On both sides, the features are getting complex, and you do care whether the phone runs Symbian, for example ; or Microsoft Windows Mobile ; or Linux. And yes, Linux is starting to be the real threat."

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