How will the market development and will there be three open source operating systems in several years’ time?
Funambol: The trend toward openness in mobile handset is unmistakable. Mobile operating system providers will be compelled to make their platforms open. This does not mean that they will all become open source, but it means more openness in their APIs (application programming interfaces). Microsoft, Apple, RIM and others will need to make their mobile platforms more open over time.There are too many platforms for mobile developers to support, and there will be fewer three years from now. It’s difficult to predict which ones will survive but the trend is clear that they will be open and fewer in number.
