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I'm curious - why cant a desktop version of Android be possible ? I mean, OSX is moving to a world where an app developer (optimistically) can code once and com

I'm curious - why cant a desktop version of Android be possible ? I mean, OSX is moving to a world where an app developer (optimistically) can code once and compile to both desktop and mobile targets. Why cant Android be able to drive that in Linux. I would like to think that if Android was available on both desktops and mobiles, we would have been happily playing Dark Souls using Steam-on-Linux by now.

shmerl 14y ago
It's not that it "can't". It's just that would be bad for Linux even more. Do you want the sick situation with mobile drivers to spread to desktop as well? No, thanks. Also, Android is rather narrow in its capabilities comparing to normative Linux. No need to cripple the desktop like that. It's going to be other way around - normative Linux will start competing with Android in the mobile sphere.