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The ‘Made in USA’ slide (10) is nonsense. It shows a shift from non-USA OSes, Symbian and Linux to 'Made in USA' OSes, Android, iOS and Windows phone. But Andro
by eevilspock 12y ago
The ‘Made in USA’ slide (10) is nonsense. It shows a shift from non-USA OSes, Symbian and Linux to 'Made in USA' OSes, Android, iOS and Windows phone. But Android is built on Linux!
"USA controlled" may be a better way of putting it.
- sp332 12y agoAndroid has a Linux kernel, but most of the OS is not what you'd find on a normal Linux desktop distro. It was started by Android, Inc. in California and is now developed almost entirely by Google.
- eevilspock 12y agoHN is going downhill because more and more users down-vote comments not because they are fallacious or illogical, but because don't like them. sp332's comment is fair, as far as I know, but so is mine. Android is a Linux distribution according to the Linux Foundation, Google's open-source chief Chris DiBona, and several journalists.[1] "We assess the initial effort needed to adapt the Linux kernel into Android and found that 99% of the function-alities of Linux kernel 2.6 were reused into Android, and only 0.7% of the reused files were modified to implement the requirements of Android."[2] I said the slide is "nonsense" because it is inconsistent in how it counts Linux-based OSes. [1] Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) [2] Adapting Linux for Mobile Platforms: An Empirical Study of Android. http://swat.polymtl.ca/~foutsekh/docs/era-khomh-foutse-adapting-linux.pdf http://swat.polymtl.ca/~foutsekh/docs/era-khomh-foutse-adapt...