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12 Sep 08
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His prediction? "I'd say, by then they'd have made a couple big ass mistakes and most likely one of the key founders is gone," he forecast. "But they still [will] rule the world in terms of monetization of traffic of good intent."
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In computing, there are important trends that are only just starting. The rise of ultraportables (or Liliputers) – really small yet fully functional computers, with solid-state drives – is a key trend. This will bring Linux to a wider market that would never have used it before.
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Here's my forecast: in 10 years, Android phones will be outselling phones using Microsoft Windows Mobile or Apple iPhones. Yes, I do think that.
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07 Sep 08
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In fact the ultraportables are important to this story. They are the real incarnation of what Bill Gates thought the Tablet would be. His 2001 forecast that in five years the Tablet would be the dominant model on sale was wrong. But I'll pick up his wonky prediction cap. I think that it will be true of the ultraportable in five years or so; in 10 years, surely.
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And I think that ultraportable, like the Android phones, will be running Linux, because there's a lot of effort gone into developing low-power versions of it already.
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