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What we are seeing is convergence from the android direction. Android devices continue to get more and more powerful, only thing that's painful to do on android
by shams93 9y ago
What we are seeing is convergence from the android direction. Android devices continue to get more and more powerful, only thing that's painful to do on android is develop android apps but its possible with AIDE (unlike ios which requires at least a machine running in the cloud to build). Debugging on AIDE is not great at all but for more simple apps it works fine. Using termux you have the entire console gnu stack, ruby, node, gcc, python, pip, git, emacs, etc... You even have csound for doing serious academic level electronic music composition on android. Combine those kind of tools with galaxy s8's ability to turn into an android desktop with the base station and you have Shuttleworth's vision of convergence happening but from android rather than an ubuntu phone.
- djsumdog 9y agoI don't see what any of that has to do with running Android itself. Linux made it big with developers and for servers because it could run on any x86/PC platform. ARM is not a platform. We can't just release a new open source operating system for ARM devices because they're all radically different and non-standard. I don't think you understood my comment.
- incompatible 9y agoThere are thousands of models of Android phone, probably over 10k, but to what extent are they all radically different? They all seem to end up using the same chipsets from a few manufacturers, and surely product lines within a single company reuse a lot of code.