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> Real people like an app ecosystem with their latest Angry Birds games Since Dalvik is open-source, perhaps they could tweak a few things to make Android apps
by kijin 14y ago
> Real people like an app ecosystem with their latest Angry Birds games
Since Dalvik is open-source, perhaps they could tweak a few things to make Android apps run on Ubuntu, albeit a little slower? Out of the box compatibility with existing Android apps would be a huge gain for a mobile OS that is just trying to enter the market.
- wmf 14y agoIf you're going to run Android apps, why not just use Android with a custom launcher and skin? Any sort of app compatibility layer is just an admission of defeat.
- yakiv 14y agoIt might be an admission of defeat that leads to victory. "DOS was popular because it had software from day one. And it had software because Tim Paterson had thought to include a CP/M compatibility feature in it . . ." (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html) Edit: And, as someone else said in this discussion, "developers, developers, developers".