They are going to integrate it into their mbed-os(their IOT lightweight event based os, especially designed for real-time low-power devices).Some parts of this would be closed, so it's hard to tell if PolarSSL will be too.
It might, but I wouldn't say probably. It might also mean more resources devoted to ensuring that PolarSSL runs well on the ARM architectures/chips that are (or will be) out there anyway. That's probably more interesting to most people, except for those making dedicated network hardware.
Who said there was a problem? I'm sure PolarSSL runs very well on ARM already. However, it's also extremely likely that it could run even better if the PolarSSL developers were more fully plugged into what the people who work on the ARM crypto hardware know. It's amazing what one can do if one knows exact details of what's going on within each functional unit, between them on the internal coherency bus, etc. ARM probably saw an opportunity, not a problem.
I don't think it is that. ARM doesn't make the crypto. The SoC makers put their own crypto cores so it wouldn't help ARM that way.
I think just like they bought Keil (a dev tools maker) this is a strategy play to make it easier for end devs to add SSL or other crypto to their products. One shop solution.
There are undoubtedly other bits as well, as part of their "trusted computing" blahblah. Even if that weren't the case, knowing more about the internals of current and upcoming ARM IP could help optimize even an all-software implementation of PolarSSL. You could be right that it's mostly about "one stop shopping" but that doesn't mean there won't be other benefits.
However, Trusted Computing crypto is different than the crypto accelerators you find as peripherals in an SoC.
I should have been more clear that I meant crypto peripherals. There are crypto instruction extensions but don't require a separate library implementation -- just asm code optimization in something like openSSL.
PolarSSL is also targeted (mainly) towards much lower power than A53 or Cortex-A. It is targeted towards Cortex-M where you are dealing with KB of data and often don't have an MMU. You can't just port OpenSSL to those platforms and run it at will, hence their optimized libraries.
It actually still makes them money. The Flash authoring environment is still one of the more popular methods of doing production-quality animation. See http://coldhardflash.com for lots of examples.
The Flash authoring environment is the best vector graphics editor I've used, even without the animation and scripting on top. They're still going to continue that, even if the Flash Player plugin is a bit behind.
Not misleading at all. "Market share" means exactly that -- the share of the market for smartphones.
Installed base is a different concept from market share.
Statcounter is a proxy for installed base rather than market share. It therefore presents an outdated picture of a fast-moving market. Blackberry above Windows Phone? iOS with 3/4 the share of Android?
Statcounter shouldn't ever be seen as representing marketshare or installed base, rather it represents usage share. If you buy a device but put in a drawer, it counts as market share but since it isn't being used day by day, it wouldn't count as usage share.
I wonder if the reason Nokia hasn't been crowing about the marketshare numbers in Europe is that it is a Pyrrhic victory won with massive discounts. If they are displacing their own feature phones (but without the profit margin), it would create the impression of an installed base, when people are primarily using it for telephony and texting.
When releasing a disguised press release, you can be a little loose with your math.
For example, say your overall market share is roughly 3.1% of the entire market. You just had a banner month and your sales were roughly 7.7% of total sales for the segment for that month. You can honestly say that your market share is "nearing" 10%. You say this knowing that many people will just read the headline or skim through the body. Now, many have a mental picture of your company actually having 10% market share.
