Opening Up Director, Open Source Technologies Mobile Platforms
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Opening Up David “Lefty” Schlesinger Director, Open Source Technologies ACCESS CO., LTD. Mobile Platforms Open Up Your World InterOp 2008 Las Vegas, NV April 29, 2008
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Cellphone adoption is quickly outpacing laptop and desktop sales. Cell phones have become the premier converged device. But it's increasingly difficult for a single vendor to keep up the pace of innovation and new application development using proprietary software. The open source development commuinities are significiant untapped resources for mobile development. Third-party application development is key. The platform which includes the developers directly in the development process is the one that will progress the fastest.
Transcript of Opening Up Director, Open Source Technologies Mobile Platforms
Opening Up
David “Lefty” SchlesingerDirector, Open Source Technologies
ACCESS CO., LTD.
Mobile Platforms
Open Up Your World
InterOp 2008Las Vegas, NVApril 29, 2008
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Smart Phone v. PC Shipments (000 units)
Source: In-Stat, 2006; eTForecasts, 2006; ACCESS internal estimates
Mobile Growth is Outpacing the Desktop
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•Gigahertz•Gigabytes•30 inches•120 keys
•Megahertz•Megabytes
•3 inches•12 keys
Your Cell Phone Is Not Your Desktop System.
Apple Mac Pro Nokia N95
Mobile devices lag today’s top-end systems by an order of magnitude…
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•350 MHz•64MB RAM•6GB Disk•Ethernet(10 Mbps)
•$2,500•(monitor not included)
•330 MHz•128MB RAM•8GB “Disk”
•WiFi(54 Mpbs)
•Bluetooth•GPS
•GSM/WCDMA•$625
•(includes monitor!)
It’s Sorta the One You Used to Have, Though…
…but at a quarter of the cost!
Power Mac G4 Tower
Nokia N95Nokia N95
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Key Issues for Mobile Devices
� Security
� Adaptability and Flexibility
� Robust 3rd-party Ecosystems
� Open versus Proprietary Platforms
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Security
� Malware on a laptop is an inconvenience; malware on a cell phone costs money
� PWN2OWN at CANSEC West:
− Mac OS X: PWN’d in 35 seconds
− Vista Ultimate: PWN’d in 54 hours
− Ubuntu Linux: un-PWN’d after 3 days
� Security benefits from openness and transparency
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Adaptability and Flexibility
� Cell phones have become the premier converged device, with new capabilities being
added every week
� Converged devices of a wide variety of kinds are
becoming increasingly available
− MP3 players with WiFi
− Cameras with WiFi and GPS
� It’s increasingly difficult for a single vendor to keep up the pace of innovation using proprietary
software
� How wide a range of devices can a platform
span…?
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Robust 3rd-Party Ecosystems
� 3rd-party application development is the key to the “virtuous cycle”
� The platform which includes the developers directly in the development process can progress
the fastest
� “Collabor-etition” beats proprietary competition: we can compete on our own strengths, on a level
playing field
� The open source development communities are
significant untapped resources for mobile development
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Open v. Proprietary Platforms
� Key UX technologies (“desktop effects”, alpha-channeling, transparency, etc.) first appeared on
open source systems
� The scarcity of relevant hardware has slowed the
mobile open source movement down, but that’s
changing very quickly
� No single company can bring to bear resources
equivalent to the open source development communities
− In 2007, 10,000+ contributors to the Linux kernel
alone
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Thank you!
