HP paid more than a billion dollars for smartphone maker Palm. And by golly, it plans to get its money’s worth. The buyout was something of a surprise given HP had no previous involvement in the phone market, but it soon became clear the real target of the acquisition was WebOS, a generally well-regarded mobile […]
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My post from a few weeks ago, detailing why I’d decided to switch to a PC from a Mac, really got some of your blood boiling. While there were a few folks utterly aghast at my decision to nix the shiny world of Apple for the starker, more sterile world of Microsoft, on the whole, […]
By Mackenzie Morgan Contributing Writer, [GAS] Many Linux users are geeks, and vice versa, and geeks can build their own systems or at least install an OS, so why should we buy systems with Linux pre-installed? Why is it so important if the OS is free? Let’s talk about a little thing called “market share.” […]
If you follow me on Twitter, you might have noticed that I’ve been changing the computer regime over here. It isn’t that I don’t love the shininess of my MacBook. It isn’t that, given the money and all that, I’d just go out and buy a top-of-the-line Mac… because, honestly, I’d consider it. As important […]
Caitlyn Martin at O’Reilly examines the idea that Linux only has a 1% market share on desktops (including laptops), and finds that it’s lacking. This 1% number comes primarily from usage shares detected by web browsers. However, Martin says that the 1% number simply doesn’t make sense. For example, Linux had 32% of the netbook […]
Totally untrue (at least in 2011), but still funny: [Via]
If you’re still smarting from the removal of a Linux option from your PS3, there may be legal recourse: if, that is, you live in Europe. As we noted last month, a Sony firmware update removed the ability to install Linux on the console, something some users found particularly attractive given the processing power of […]