On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Roy Ong <[email protected]> wrote:
> SAN FRANCISCO, 31 MARCH 2009 - Hewlett-Packard is considering offering > an operating system platform developed by Google in its netbooks at the > expense of Microsoft's Windows OS, according to a published report > Tuesday. > > > http://mis-asia.com/news/articles/report-hp-may-offer-android-in-netbooks-over-windows > > This is nothing but jumping on the Android hype bandwagon. Android runs on a Linux kernel, yes, but its user environment is oriented towards a resource-constrained device equipped with touchscreen, GPS, accelerometer, 3G connectivity and such. Processes could be terminated (not swapped out) arbitrarily. A user application is written to a specific state machine that defines the flow of application states, and is expected to handle data persistence according to that state machine. The netbook user is better off running a WIMP distro of Linux operating on the standard Unix process model.
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