Why the Vivaldi tablet never came to market

Posted Jul 24, 2014 13:34 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785)
In reply to: Why the Vivaldi tablet never came to market by mjg59
Parent article: Why the Vivaldi tablet never came to market

> It's reassuring to know that Linux couldn't possibly be a competitor to established UNIX in the 90s.

I'm not so sure that you can deduce something from this: one could say that the UNIX companies overpricing, use of proprietary HW (well not every UNIX company but..), and the advent of cheap PCs made Linux's success possible.

For the phones and tablet,
1) there's already Android
2) the HW is the same for everybody
so competition will be tough!

Why the Vivaldi tablet never came to market

Posted Jul 24, 2014 17:21 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (1 responses)

Linux was successful because, by some metric, it was better than the competition. It's possible to achieve that without being a giant player. Difficult, admittedly, but the idea that people shouldn't even try to compete with Google is ridiculous.

Why the Vivaldi tablet never came to market

Posted Jul 31, 2014 8:17 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> Linux was successful because, by some metric, it was better than the competition.

Isn't that an absolutely PERFECT description of Google, when they started out, against AltaVista and the like ... :-)

Cheers,
Wol