During an industry forum held in Beijing, Jim Zemlin, the Executive Director of Linux Foundation said that mobile telecoms company should start offering netbooks to gain profit through multi-year subscriptions as well as through sales from apps store. But since Windows-powered netbooks would be too costly for telcos to give away for free,  Mr. Zemlin suggest the rather obvious idea of giving away Linux-powered netbooks instead. Linux netbooks are way cheaper than Windows netbooks.

Mr. Zemlin also cited the success of the iPhone which were made available to users at a cheap price in exchange for two-year service contracts. This could be a good benchmark for telecoms company who will decided to bundled up netbooks with their service plans.

To augment their profit, Mr. Zemlin suggested the setting up of netbooks’ apps store similar to Apple’s iTunes.

Via The Inquirer

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