Android without the mothership

Posted Jun 21, 2014 5:52 UTC (Sat) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136)
In reply to: Android without the mothership by khim
Parent article: Android without the mothership

> And that will be a watershed moment because shortly after that traditional desktop Linux will

… just pick up whatever components are necessary to run Android apps, and then your Linux distro for your ARM/AArch64 desktop/notebook hardware will run Android apps alongside all the rest (just like running X apps / command-line apps / whatever else alongside Cocoa apps on Mac OS X). At that point, any difference between Android and "traditional desktop Linux" (except possibly for stuff related to the Google "mothership") will have effectively ceased to exist.

Android without the mothership

Posted Jun 26, 2014 11:46 UTC (Thu) by accumulator (guest, #95885) [Link]

Interesting.. After years of divergence we enter into an era of convergence again. Linux Desktop as the "iron" and Android as the VM/Container