Somehow lately, many companies interested in the market for mobile Internet devices. For example, Nokia introduced the communicator N900, and Intel has long said the new mobile platform Moorestown. Despite the fact that in this market already has plenty of active players such as Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Freescale, opportunities for companies producing for the first time communicators, smart phones and other MID-devices, a lot, both in terms of equipment, and with terms of software.

Most of this segment of the market used by the operating system with the kernel Linux. In particular, the already mentioned device Nokia N900 uses Maemo operating system 5, developed by Nokia, based on Linux. The source reports that the company Samsung, which is also not averse to enter the market, is developing its own mobile operating system. "Like other leading manufacturers of mobile phones, Samsung has agreed with the need to develop its own operating system. And now is the right time in order to implement this proposal."

The market MID Microsoft Windows operating systems have become much less common than in the market of personal computers. However, experience shows that netbooks are often a situation arises that the user is accustomed to Windows, dissatisfied with the device under Linux, and manufacturers must take into account this factor, if they want to expand the market for MID.

On the other hand, it is clear that the real profit communicators, smart phones, etc. will come from sales of software products and services for them. Operating system developed by the producer end device is more likely to be very user-friendly than the universal cumbersome Windows. Mobile OS can be optimized to provide our own services products that will improve the profitability of the device. In addition, if a manufacturer refuses to Windows, it is unlikely that he wants to dominance of the operating system Google Android.