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| Authored by: DannyB on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 01:10 PM EDT |
> How long until PC OEMs decide to take a gamble on
> the winning mobile OS and load Android onto PCs?
My guess: as soon as there are the right kinds of applications on Android to
make it an attractive product as a PC replacement. This might also require some
additional capability to be added to Android, such as multiple windows.
IMO adding multiple windows to Android is a lot easier than refitting Windows
and its legacy apps to a touch screen world.
Android already supports keyboards and mice in addition to touch screen, voice
and gestures. Putting apps into windows is not a huge application compatibility
hurdle. Most apps already can scale to multiple "window" (eg screen)
sizes.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 02:25 PM EDT |
In the end, Google may require our help, with phone in campaigns and
text messages sent from our Android phones to the decision makers and
influential politicians of this world.
This could be a simple app
with all the relevant contact info added for the current location and sample
texts that you can select to build the message
__ I'm angry and won't take
it any more
__ I'm peeved by your recent decision
__ I'm not happy
with the direction you are going
Maybe have a random default
selected
Cut and paste messages don't work well in low volume, they won't be
read, but if they have to bring in a temp to sort them they may take note.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: complex_number on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 03:00 PM EDT |
Ahh Android, that malware ridden O/S that Mobile Phone manufacturers (Samsung,
I'm looking at you) mod into oblivion so that it bear no resemblance to the
original.
I've had an HTC Sensation (Android 2.3 plus a whole heap of bloatware that you
can't switch off without rooting it) and a Samsung thingy that despite being
almost new still runs Android 2.3 and actully answering a phone call (remember
them) is so hit and miss that less than 50% of calls get answered.
Is it any wonder that I've thrown both away (Sorry recycled) and reverted to a
Nokia 6310i.
I'm actually considering an iPhone as a replacement when the Nokia goes belly up
as it is at least 10 years old.
Frankly, I'm less than impressed with Android and its various forks.
Am I alone in wanting a phone that can make and receive calls? I really don't
use all this smaratphone <redacted> stuff very much.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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| Authored by: nola on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 03:13 PM EDT |
If you look at usage then the opposite is true. Internet usage of iOS far
exceeds
that of Android.
It seems that Androids are often featurephone replacements, bought for low
price.
People who are heavy Internet users seem to be buying the more expensive iPhone.
And, of course, you can now get iPhone 4 for almost-free and 4S for $99 with a
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 05:42 PM EDT |
> About the only weakness I can see is that one company –
> Samsung – dominates the Android landscape.
Hmmm, isn't that the same weakness, a dominant oligopoly,
that people are complaining about in the PC OS market?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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