> Apple knew exactly what hardware their OS was going to run on and > they optimized it awesomely.
Very true. We need hardware companies that build on Linux and to focus on a similar feat. But I'm afraid that it takes a lot of stubborn-ness and arrogance with a perfectionist attitude to come up with something comparable to Apple. While the core Linux kernel developers work with such an attitude (that resulted in the most successful, optimized and feature-rich OS kernel), the same attitude is somewhat lacking amongst hardware vendors and integrators that incorporate Linux into their product-lines. I do sense a trail of stubborn-ness by folks at Canonical and the Ubuntu community in general in not compromising to anything thats below their expectations - which in turn did result in a very high quality product (Ubuntu family of distributions). > Google on the other hand ironically by making Android free, allowed > the OS stack to be installed on cheap, low power processor driven > Chinese phones and got a bad name. Poor OS response and very bad > battery performance. Making Android "free" was a good move. This allowed more hardware vendors to incorporate them into their products and helped them build a more open eco-system. But I guess, they should get rid of VM cruft and come up with a completely full-stack user-land build optimized for native performance and provide more thorough API stack for writing native applications with rich content and UI elements. Cheers, Chandrashekar -- Chandrashekar Babu http://www.chandrashekar.info/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
