History repeats itself: IBM vs Apple then, iPhone vs Android now

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Dr Android ROM

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

History, ironically, tends to repeat its self. This may be old news in political, economical or historical events but what happens in Hardware/Software industry ?.

While I was reading some articles on the web about the market share of mobile OS’s today/tomorrow, a “pattern” started to emerge before my eyes. There is something in this pattern that indicates what mobile OS will have the major market share maybe 2 years from now, or sooner. As I predict, near future of mobile phones will belong to Android Linux operating system.

Ok that may have sound like foolish… but please be patient and let me (try) explain what are the historical similarities between the war of IBM-Apple then, and Apple(iOS)-Google(Android) now and how will probably be the end of this fight over the market share pie chart. So grab a cup of coffee and open your mind !

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Blogging via Smartphone

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Open source is just the best thing that humanity achieved in 60 years of software enginiering. Every aspect of our interaction with the internet is powered by an Open Source project.

WordPress is one of the greatest open source project that brought content management system to the masses. Android Linux on the other hand, as an open source operating system for mobile devices such as cellular phones, tablet computers and netbooks is becoming more popular every day attracting more and more developers.

WordPress for Android is an Open Source app that lets you manage multiple sites, add or edit content, and also manage and be notified of comments while you are away from your desktop/laptop computer.

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2Click Update 5.7 available in DEB package

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These will be a post as short as possible. I am proud to announce this new release. With these release 2Click Update is downloadable as .deb package. This way all the needed dependencies, language packs, and a menu entry are installed automatically.
After installation you will find 2Click Update under Applications–> Internet –> 2ClickUpdate

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2Click Update version 5.6

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After a month of delay, for testing purposes, I am releasing the new version of 2Click Update (2cu) and 2cuCORE. This version is a result of collaboration and contribution by the community. I have to thank Nathan Douglas and Mark Obad for their contribution to the code of this version and the translations provided by the launchpad community.

Comparison: Ubuntu update manager and 2clickUpdate

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After publishing the 5.5.version of 2click Update, it got an unexpected attention by the community. Many referral links, reviews, code contribution, translations and some emails pointing in one general question:

what the heck does it do and why to use 2click Update when there is already Ubuntu Update manager available

After some mails talking about the reasons why 2click Update is better than “classic” update manager with Andrew, author of  Web Upd8 , I realized that many people could have the same questions that raised upon the discussion.  Let me give you a better description of  what makes 2click Update a “smart robot”(script).

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