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.

-- 
-- Thomas



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