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Linux-powered Android phones have outsold the iPhone during the first quarter of 2010 to become the second most widely-selling phones behind RIM phones. This is incredibly interesting, since smartphones are basically computers with radios attached. RIM phones constituted 36% of sales; Linux-powered Android phones reached 28% of the market; and iPhones came in third at 21% of sales. What's more important, Android phone sales grew 40%, while iPhone sales remained flat. Microsoft remains nowhere to be seen, and actually lost market share. Click on the Read More button to read the rest of the story.

Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen explains why the growth of Linux on phones is so important. Microsoft has a monopoly on desktop computers, but is an afterthought in the phone market. Linux is what Christensen calls a "disruptive technology", meaning that it will tend to grow in a market that is peripheral to Microsoft's main market, desktop computers. And that is exactly what is happening. So if you want to watch the global digital tipping point unfold before your eyes, watch mobile computers, such as cell phones and small netbook computers.