Re: [Dorset] android tablets

2014-01-02 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 02/01/14 20:31, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: http://jolla.com/ Nokia created Maemo, a Linux for phones based on Debian and shipped it on some devices. Intel were working on Moblin (Fedora based), for small computing appliances. The two were combined to create MeeGo, although Intel later quit

Re: [Dorset] android tablets

2014-01-02 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 26/12/13 19:02, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Well, more labour for them, mainly. And that takes time during which competitors are shipping multiple products as hardware continues to improve. And the end result of their own non-Android OS would be a reduced ecosystem for customers, e.g. no access to