<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Peter Gueckel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgueckel@gmail.com" target="_blank">pgueckel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Peter Gueckel wrote:<br>
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Good grief! I had no idea that this would result in such a heated<br>
exchange :-)<br>
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As some have pointed out, the smartphone is a computer. Also, many<br>
users are giving up their desktop and laptop computers for<br>
smartphones and, sometimes, an additional tablet.<br>
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Given this development, does Fedora have anything to offer them?<br>
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So far in the discussion, the answer appears to be that it doesn't.<br>
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Given this development, who will be using Fedora, if it cannot be<br>
used on the devices people nowadays are purchasing and using?<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>A thought:</div><div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>People are not out buying box- or folding-computers because the market is saturated. No one needs the latest, and greatest computer, but we still have them, and we may still need them to write essays / reports; thus, we still need the OS. We are, however, going to need, for the present time, the latest, and greatest smart phone. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>We may need to buy computers when voice-activation comes along - at which time they may be built into the houses, and these will need the OS.</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>I believe we want to develop for the hand-held data-device; we sell the OS by installing on our own devices, overtop of Android.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>
Just my thoughts on redundancy.<br></div></div>