On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You mean Android right? Droid is one model of phone using the Android >> platform. > Yes and no, because... >> I've read of fragmentation in the Android market. > Exactly. Droid seems like the first Android phone that's getting > marketing budget, mainstream attention and adoption, and also has an > impressive feature set. While widespread use of Android as a generic > phone engine might be good for Linux tech, it's not going to help the > desktop market much because it's not going to be attracting > application programmers. But if Droid gathers the kind of developer > ecosystem that iPhone has, *that* might be a gateway drug for the > Linux desktop.
Except for the fact that Andriod is pretty much all written in Java. :-D And doesn't use X. And must be run in a VM which isn't the Java VM. -- -- Thomas _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
