>How easy would it be for them to bring out an Android PC?
A local pawnshop was offering what purported to be an Android netbook. I didn't
play with it, so I don't know what it really was. (They wanted US$500 for it,
which I considered at least US$450 more than I'd pay for a used netbook.)
For an Android desktop, running Intel/AMD chips, the biggest hurdle is porting
the kernel.
For users, the biggest hurdle to _Android on the Desktop_ adoption, is the lack
of software that can read/write/edit ODF file formats.
In an ideal world, either LibreOffice, or Apache OpenOffice would be ported to
Android.
>As soon as a company outside the Windows ecosystem thinks it can sell a
window-less PC, your scenario will come about.
The big issue is whether or not white box vendors can sell non-Windows boxes
alongside their Win8 boxes, when the only difference is the OS, or lack
thereof.
The white box vendor I bought my last desktop from, did offer Fedora and Ubuntu
preloaded on some systems. Usually, the specs were lower/worse than their
Windows offerings. However, upon request, they would substitute Ubuntu or
Fedora for Windows.
Inasmuch as white box vendors appear to be a dying breed, I don't know if that
is a ray of hope, or not. (I've only found one local white box vendor. They only
do custom work. They do charge full retail for all software on the system. The
upside of going to them, is that they won't blink if you ask for a MicroWulf.
The downside of using them, is that software costs are very noticeable, easily
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