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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
Depends on the term mass-market success, of course, but generally speaking, in today's market, no (this being my strictly personal opinion everybody is welcome to (dis)agree with). However, a slow shift in business models (which are long overdue in some indrustry branches) just may make it a mass-market success in a rhethorical tomorrow - like it happened before with linux on the server market. This change, however, won't happen overnight. Remember, there have been loads of Linux phones/MIDs out on the market - it's just that they were never marketed as such. It also needs support of some key players in the field. Enter Nokia with Maemo (or, I must mention, Google with Android), which gives the oft-spoken about potential to really push stuff mainstream. Reminds me a bit of IBM and their Linux transition/adoption.
Response A: It seems it would take some IMMENSE market changes. IBM can make lots of money off of hardware and services; Google can make money off advertising. Unless they manage to slip in (or except when they can manage to slip in) advertising sufficient to make the money they would like, content providers are going to be mighty resistant to doing something like IBM did. Or else there would have to be a market change so huge it exceeds my imagination.

Response B: It seems to me that you would predict there will be no DRM clients offered by content providers to Android. (I don't understand the intricacies of how Android is not as open as Maemo, but apart from that ...) Yes?