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Because economies of scale mean that commodity hardware is vastly less expensive and more available than special-purpose hardware. The number of people who set
by marshray 15y ago
Because economies of scale mean that commodity hardware is vastly less expensive and more available than special-purpose hardware.
The number of people who set out to run specifically Linux on a tablet is vanishingly small. I say this as one of them.
- astrodust 15y agoThe commodity components used to assemble a tablet are vastly less expensive than they would be if not used by so many other manufacturers. Where's the Raspberry Pi of tablets?
- wmf 15y agoThere are a ton of craptablets based on Rockchip SoCs. Even so, a craptablet running "real Linux" would probably cost more than the equivalent Android version.
- astrodust 15y agoThe demoscene people do some really amazing work with some very basic hardware, so why can't that kind of talent be applied to making a really ripping Linux tablet?
- recoiledsnake 15y agoMake Apple open up the iPad then. makes sense rather than windows tablets which are barely out.
- kiloaper 15y agoWe don't have to "make" Apple do anything. There are already people porting Linux and Android on their hardware. See http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Main_Page