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Samsung beat them at their own game, if you have an s8 with the desktop dock your phone can act like a remix os box.

digi_owl 9y ago
Android in general really. Once 7.0 was demoed with optionally floating windows, it was really game over for Remix and similar. The really sad part is that if one watch the thinking from Rubin and crew around Android 3-4, it was clear that this was their goal. But then came ChromeOS, a refocusing on that for "desktop", while Android languished in a doldrums. Only after corporations etc firmly dismissed Chromebooks did we see a renewed interest in Android as anything more than a fancy media player.
- amiga-workbench 9y ago
  I thought that Remix was a doomed product the first time I'd laid eyes on it. We have seen similar attempts from other manufacturers in the past, be that Motorola's webtop, the mini apps lumped into several OEM ROMs that emulate floating windows or the third party app packages that do the same thing. At the end of the day, Google is the only one who can viably create new modes of interaction and the new API's to support it. OEM's can throw their own garbage together but they will typically only ever push it on a single flagship device or some quirky variant with this feature differentiating it from the horde of other models they vomit out in the space of a year. You will get the paltry in-built apps to use and perhaps the apps of one or two sponsored partners, the development community at large will not bother using the feature because they would be targeting such a tiny fraction of their users. Android OEM's should be purely hardware companies, focusing on hardware gimmicks alone, leave the software to those who can do it properly. It's not dissimilar from ISP's gagging to be anything but a dumb pipe, inserting themselves between you and your media. It's very unwelcome.
- bitmapbrother 9y ago
  Corporations "firmly" dismissed Chromebooks? Where are you citing this from? If anything, the recent ransomware attacks, that basically require you to have a bitcoin wallet if you're running Windows, is probably the reason enterprises are flocking to them.

Android in general really. Once 7.0 was demoed with optionally floating windows, it was really game over for Remix and similar. The really sad part is that if one watch the thinking from Rubin and crew around Android 3-4, it was clear that this was their goal. But then came ChromeOS, a refocusing on that for "desktop", while Android languished in a doldrums. Only after corporations etc firmly dismissed Chromebooks did we see a renewed interest in Android as anything more than a fancy media player.

amiga-workbench 9y ago
I thought that Remix was a doomed product the first time I'd laid eyes on it. We have seen similar attempts from other manufacturers in the past, be that Motorola's webtop, the mini apps lumped into several OEM ROMs that emulate floating windows or the third party app packages that do the same thing. At the end of the day, Google is the only one who can viably create new modes of interaction and the new API's to support it. OEM's can throw their own garbage together but they will typically only ever push it on a single flagship device or some quirky variant with this feature differentiating it from the horde of other models they vomit out in the space of a year. You will get the paltry in-built apps to use and perhaps the apps of one or two sponsored partners, the development community at large will not bother using the feature because they would be targeting such a tiny fraction of their users. Android OEM's should be purely hardware companies, focusing on hardware gimmicks alone, leave the software to those who can do it properly. It's not dissimilar from ISP's gagging to be anything but a dumb pipe, inserting themselves between you and your media. It's very unwelcome.
bitmapbrother 9y ago
Corporations "firmly" dismissed Chromebooks? Where are you citing this from? If anything, the recent ransomware attacks, that basically require you to have a bitcoin wallet if you're running Windows, is probably the reason enterprises are flocking to them.