Irrelevant is the word, unfortunately

Posted Jun 2, 2014 8:42 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Irrelevant is the word, unfortunately by khim
Parent article: Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development

Ah, yes - you are right. What I meant by Android was actually "whatever comes ouf of the Google behemoth".

Irrelevant is the word, unfortunately

Posted Jun 2, 2014 11:51 UTC (Mon) by ewan (guest, #5533) [Link] (2 responses)

You also forgot SteamOS.

Irrelevant is the word, unfortunately

Posted Jun 2, 2014 14:00 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

SteamOS is not yet relevant. Sure, there are huge number of press releases, but it's not yet clear how much interest there will be among [potential] users. It may grow big or it may become a footnote in the history books, we just don't know yet.

Irrelevant is the word, unfortunately

Posted Jun 2, 2014 15:18 UTC (Mon) by ewan (guest, #5533) [Link]

Bojan's orignal point was:

"No serious entity is doing anything to actually make a platform of it, so no serious entity is thinking of building hardware or software for it"

That's plainly untrue if you count SteamOS; it may not be a mass market success yet (or ever), but Valve absolutely are trying to make a platform out of it, and encourage others to build both hardware and software for it.