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I say this somewhat blindly, as I have not spent much time with the Android code base, but trying to scale an operating system from mobile phone to netbook seem

I say this somewhat blindly, as I have not spent much time with the Android code base, but trying to scale an operating system from mobile phone to netbook seems a tad ambitious, no?

smhinsey 17y ago
I think the OS itself was built with this in mind, so the default apps are probably fine. The real question is going to be the 3d party apps. I know apple is already having to deal with this to some extent with some of the resolution independence features in 3.0, but I'm not sure what google's plan is.
- ram1024 17y ago
  android is still working out the logistics, but it would be simple enough to alert users that said apps won't run on their system due to lack of hardware components touch screens etc. people creating apps will see value in supporting multiple devices under the android umbrella, and adding in clever hacks to simulate say accelerometer functions with mouse movements or whatever. or android itself will have some kind of built in spoofing/emulation of mobile functionality that the user can simply configure to their liking
jws 17y ago
The OS isn't a problem. Consider Linux inhabiting spaces from embedded (32M ram and a little flash is comfortably doable with Debian, this is a small fraction of an iPhone) to 87% of the top 500 supercomputers on the planet (top500.org). The user interface is a whole different question. Apple considered this question and decided that phones are too small to share a user interface with modern desktops. 9-10" displays are somewhere between. My personal observations on display size and desktop designed user interfaces: 24", 20", 15", and 13" are all nice and I don't feel cramped or diluted on any of them. On my 9" netbook I resent the area lost to non-core display tasks (menu bars, icons, all the spacing and stuff that makes it work well on larger devices). But after abonding the desktop metaphor, on my 4"(ish) iPhone with its size sensitive applications I don't feel cramped.

I say this somewhat blindly, as I have not spent much time with the Android code base, but trying to scale an operating system from mobile phone to netbook seems a tad ambitious, no?

smhinsey 17y ago

I think the OS itself was built with this in mind, so the default apps are probably fine. The real question is going to be the 3d party apps. I know apple is already having to deal with this to some extent with some of the resolution independence features in 3.0, but I'm not sure what google's plan is.

ram1024 17y ago
android is still working out the logistics, but it would be simple enough to alert users that said apps won't run on their system due to lack of hardware components touch screens etc. people creating apps will see value in supporting multiple devices under the android umbrella, and adding in clever hacks to simulate say accelerometer functions with mouse movements or whatever. or android itself will have some kind of built in spoofing/emulation of mobile functionality that the user can simply configure to their liking

jws 17y ago

The OS isn't a problem. Consider Linux inhabiting spaces from embedded (32M ram and a little flash is comfortably doable with Debian, this is a small fraction of an iPhone) to 87% of the top 500 supercomputers on the planet (top500.org). The user interface is a whole different question. Apple considered this question and decided that phones are too small to share a user interface with modern desktops. 9-10" displays are somewhere between. My personal observations on display size and desktop designed user interfaces: 24", 20", 15", and 13" are all nice and I don't feel cramped or diluted on any of them. On my 9" netbook I resent the area lost to non-core display tasks (menu bars, icons, all the spacing and stuff that makes it work well on larger devices). But after abonding the desktop metaphor, on my 4"(ish) iPhone with its size sensitive applications I don't feel cramped.