Well, Ok...
Well, Ok...
Posted Jul 15, 2011 13:33 UTC (Fri) by jch (guest, #51929)In reply to: Well, Ok... by khim
Parent article: Google: "Android is the Linux desktop dream come true" (der Standard)
> Because in real world there are always some third party which acts as mediator between developers and users (be it Canonical, RedHat or Verizon)
The difference, of course, is that when I buy a licence for RHEL, I am RedHat's customer, and RedHat has no interest in throwing anti-features at me. Not so with Android -- it's the carriers that Google needs to cater to.
> your Linux desktop [...] needs someone else to push the compatible hardware platform
Indeed, that's a good point.
-- jch