LWN: Comments on "Tablet and smartphone run on Android-based Grid OS (Linux Devices)"

inference engine

klbrun — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:14:03 +0000

Only if they can make lots of money from it (God is clearly Mammon).

inference engine

wingo — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:22:37 +0000

If Tim Berners-Lee is a knight that likes the semantic web, does that imply that the Queen of England (and thereby, divinity itself) approves of Fusion Garage's product?

Tablet and smartphone run on Android-based Grid OS (Linux Devices)

jospoortvliet — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:03:27 +0000

Sounds a lot like the smart recommendations from Active: http://www.meegoexperts.com/2011/08/video-demo-contour-ru... ;-)

Tablet and smartphone run on Android-based Grid OS (Linux Devices)

rsidd — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:25:53 +0000

My mom may not, but I routinely look up recipes on my smartphone. I have also searched for restaurants with my phone, while on the road. My doubt is whether this isn't already done adequately with existing devices (my phone doesn't even have GPS!) Revolutionary ideas can destroy existing monopolies and take over the world, evolutionary ideas -- even when they are improvements -- are less likely to...

In terms of user interface, the Grid OS seems a big improvement on the usual Android interface (even Honeycomb leaves much to be desired). But one won't know until one plays with the physical device for a while.

They seemed to get the GPL compliancy fixed

tajyrink — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:01:22 +0000

I noticed a reference to https://lwn.net/Articles/404450/ in Wikipedia. Luckily, it seems like the problem was solved: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/132810.html / http://opensource.thejoojoo.com/

Tablet and smartphone run on Android-based Grid OS (Linux Devices)

dlang — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:29:03 +0000

I actually use the 'find a restaurant near me' type of feature fairly commonly. I travel a fair bit, but even 'locally' i can end up meeting people over about a 100 mile stretch of cities, there is no way I can know everything in every area

Tablet and smartphone run on Android-based Grid OS (Linux Devices)

alankila — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:18:00 +0000

With this twist: you can't make money from users scanning nearby area for restaurants, anyway, not directly. But restaurants are willing to pay to appear high up in the search results for user who owns an expensive phone model...

Tablet and smartphone run on Android-based Grid OS (Linux Devices)

fuhchee — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:13:22 +0000

I must be getting old, but "restaurant recommendations near a user's GPS-determined lunch location" seems like an example of the same futile hope-persuasiveness as saying "Mom, you'll be able to look up recipes on the screen" back in the 1980s to justify buying a PCjr.