Multiple hardware compatibility is not at all a weakness. Just because microshaft can't do it right (they can't do *anything* right anyways) does NOT in any way suggest that there is anything particularly challenging about it.
As it turns out, the majority of the work in ensuring multiple hardware compatibility is on the HARDWARE VENDOR, who has to provide drivers for their hardware and who must build the system for their hardware, not the OS developers. What you would find, if you looked around carefully, is that Linux runs on more different kinds of hardware than most (if not all) other operating systems. That is a brilliant strength because when your proprietary crap OS runs out of useful life, that hardware will probably still work fine with Linux. Android is Linux. It can be made to run on just about anything with relatively minimal work. That would include apple phones if you figured out the drivers. On Apr 4, 9:47 pm, Schiffres <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the aspects holding back the Android OS from achieving the same > sort of mind blowing success as the iPhone is the hardware that it's > sold on. Apple is notorious for selling not so much a look, but > rather a brand, or their phone's sex appeal (lean, shiny, everything > integrated, end customer experience). Now, while it's a fact that > multiple companies are making different phones to run Android, while > Apple only has one latest generation phone at a time, this will mean > Android has to be compatible with much more hardware and can have less > of a focus on the end user experience. Unfortunately, this may hurt > Android (as it has hurt Microsoft, who though has astronomically > outdone Apple in revenue, is widely acknowledged as making subpar > products (Vista, IE, WinMo, etc. etc. *with a few exceptions of > course*)). Thus, without a doubt a single phone will rise above the > others, be the most widely adopted, and thus become the standard. > Therefore, my question is, in this ideal phone, what would you like to > see in the future (hardware wise). > > Here's an interesting article on the subject: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZCoeq9Ppc&feature=related --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
