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> Seems hard to kickstart a new consumer os, turning a viable platform into something emd userable. Actually ... the Android runtime is pretty portable and wor
by solarkraft 4y ago
> Seems hard to kickstart a new consumer os, turning a viable platform into something emd userable.
Actually ... the Android runtime is pretty portable and works VERY well on Chrome OS (you can even connect to VPNs and use custom keyboards through it). That's kind of 80% of what you need. I mean of course it's still hard, but it seems to me like they have all the parts they'd need. Which makes it all the sillier that they still haven't managed to fix Android updates.
- saagarjha 4y agoYou do understand that the Android runtime on Chrome OS didn't just pop out of the ground fully-formed, right? Years of effort went into it.
- rektide 4y agoIndeed!! Making Android vaguely somewhat compatible with the rest of the Linux universe has been an incredible long & difficult struggle. There have been so many heroic works, to tackle the vastly radically different conpletely NIH-ed Android universe & make it deal-with-able.
- solarkraft 4y agoI do, but it proves to me that it's possible. Google can do it and so (kind of) can Microsoft and the Linux community. Of course it's still hard, but a lot of what you need is already there; most importantly Google's moat, the proprietary Play Services.