Interesting article, games
Thomas Charron
twaffle at gmail.com
Fri Mar 5 11:18:31 EST 2010
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You mean Android right? Droid is one model of phone using the Android
>> platform.
> Yes and no, because...
>> I've read of fragmentation in the Android market.
> Exactly. Droid seems like the first Android phone that's getting
> marketing budget, mainstream attention and adoption, and also has an
> impressive feature set. While widespread use of Android as a generic
> phone engine might be good for Linux tech, it's not going to help the
> desktop market much because it's not going to be attracting
> application programmers. But if Droid gathers the kind of developer
> ecosystem that iPhone has, *that* might be a gateway drug for the
> Linux desktop.
Except for the fact that Andriod is pretty much all written in Java.
:-D And doesn't use X. And must be run in a VM which isn't the Java
VM.
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-- Thomas
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