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This is the direction Android will go in. I am pretty sure that in five years most people will have one smart phone that they dock at home to have access to lar
by willholloway 14y ago
This is the direction Android will go in. I am pretty sure that in five years most people will have one smart phone that they dock at home to have access to large screens and keyboard/mouse. The laptop as we know it will be replaced by laptop shells with a smart phone dock.
And those phones will run Linux with the Android UI and drivers.
I believe tiling window managers would be fantastic productivity boosters for enterprise use. Less distractions for the worker bees.
- ekianjo 14y ago> And those phones will run Linux with the Android UI and drivers. You seem to assume Android is just another Linux distro with a different windows manager? If so, you are mistaken. An Android system is very different from a Linux distro - they basically only share the kernels and it is quite wrong to classify Android as "Linux" because it creates confusion.
- willholloway 14y agoThe Linux kernel and Android kernel have already become one again, and I suspect that the community will narrow the gap further. Right now they mainly just share the kernel. If the GNU tool chain is included and you can compile and run linux programs, what is the difference besides some architectural changes?
- ekianjo 14y ago> " If the GNU tool chain is included" That's a very big "if". It is not the case currently so I would not put them under the same umbrella.