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They should've done this from the beginning, with the Motorola Atrix (first phone to feature Webtop) booting into Honeycomb (which Motorola was also first to re
by nextparadigms 15y ago
They should've done this from the beginning, with the Motorola Atrix (first phone to feature Webtop) booting into Honeycomb (which Motorola was also first to release around the same time).
It would've still been 2 different OS's though, Gingerbread on phone and Honeycomb in the "Webtop mode", and ICS should finally unify this, allowing you to use the same OS in both phone phone and Webtop mode.
This is clearly the direction Google needs to take, especially now that they have Chrome for Android. Can't they just port whatever extra features ChromeOS has to Chrome for Android and be done with it? That would make a lot more sense than dual booting Android and ChromeOS, which was one of the rumors earlier. It would seem awfully redundant to me.
I know Google dreams about competing with Microsoft in the laptop space, but to do that they need a complete 180 degree turn-around on their very annoying passiveness about tablet apps. They need a ton more tablet apps if they want this to succeed, and they need them before fall 2012 when Windows 8 is launching. Waiting around for them to arrive is not a smart strategy for them. They need to go after the developers and make them do it.