I'm glad your not a leader of innovation
Just think of how many accomplishments required time. You don't think cars instantly showed up in everyone's garages do you? The first cars were considered an expensive novelty and not much use. Now cars have risen to the point of love affairs, people love their cars, cars have a huge following, people like to modify them, tweak them, and defend them as if they were their own child.
Doesn't that sound similar to most of the Linux arguments around here? Will Linux become prominent? With Andriod, it technically already has. On the desktop? it could take some time. First we need to get off this mobile OS kick we are on, and make those new PC phones have a full OS when docked. With Linux, it should be fairly easy to do as Nix can be configured to load different modules, and run levels, right from the bootloader. The dock can provide a new bootloader to instruct the system to load a full Nix desktop, when undocked, the default bootloader only reaches a certain runlevel (whatever it may be) that loads the mobile OS instead.
Once the manufactures get this right, desktop OS's will follow as they will want to maintain compatibility, and you can bet MS will do whatever it can to prevent compatibility.
The next step will be games, those phone games, will now run on the full desktop version (probably with better graphics for the increased monitor size). This will effectively be games for Linux. Further pushing MS out of the market.
MS is like a guy hanging from a cliff, and Apple has already stomped on one hand, but Linux just can't seem to sober up enough to get the aim to stomp on the other hand and let MS drop to its death.
