On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote:
> Android devices are currently in more pockets than the sum total of > all previous efforts to make Linux usefully portable, so one could > argue that the evidence isn't on Harald's side. Do we know *why* the > Android people did these in-his-view horrible things? Actually, I > don't either. But it sure is nice to have a polished commercial phone > in my pocket that I can run a shell on. -T > Tim, while we have your attention, my top two requests for Android: 1. Realtime audio support: It's a major disappointment that Android as of 2.1 can't play music without stuttering. 2. Indic font support: I want to move on from crappy J2ME devices to Android for field data collection here in India, but can't. Hardware prices will fall over the next few months, but software support won't get fixed until it gets some love. Kiran
