Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BGB Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Android?Why Dalvik? Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 11:41:50 -0700 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net OyP6uHrgP4Mnv9WOzlNp9FMMdouDl39Lk3yOHpg3NvwnezlDORXBhTH0jMBbIsjjuJ3QWOJ479pIUUe2ibcw7w== NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:44:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="2XEooHgUL6QQJLvCIuCmrj3ibs8FggyYIu6Xq54N2sMxX0psERC+gsXunRusoDTjyk/PG/BjxVJpOMhWKwgZ4Gx+IuUsxCQyJ0T04cIFQjgwc2SIplWL2Xw/XoMSbAce"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:dLYUR1OkPOLYqIIooHzWShX3grE= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4807 On 5/31/2011 8:05 AM, Steve Sobol wrote: > In article, David Segall > says... >> >> BGB wrote: >> >>> On 5/30/2011 4:48 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>>> In message, BGB wrote: >>>> >>>>> sadly, Linux has not entirely caught up to Windows WRT making an OS >>>>> which is solidly good either... >>>> >>>> Except Android is kicking Microsoft?s arse. >>> >>> on cellphones... >>> >>> >>> not seen any laptops or desktop PC's with Android though... >> >> Maybe not, but how many people need a laptop or a desktop? > > Lots of people, but more to the point, why would you want to run Android > on a full-blown PC? > yep... much like the XBox360, a cell phone is not really usable for coding, ... I did try using my netbook before, but given my projects' codebase used up nearly the entire HD (actually, a flash-ROM / SSD), and its very slow performance, this wasn't really workable either. thus, a full-sized laptop works much better, even though still sucking vs a full PC. to replace a laptop or desktop PC, would require a cell-phone with capabilities on par to a laptop or desktop. so, the task would partly be to have a cell phone which can run Doom3 and Quake4 with no lag, has multiple TB of storage space, ... right now (several years later, the requirements will be higher). a cell-phone with performance on-par with a computer from 10 years ago is not nearly as impressive from an "oh hell, I am going to replace my desktop" sense... (much like "oh yeah... time to break out the Win98 install CD..."). meanwhile, desktops are really good at sitting on ones' desktop, and being relatively powerful, so the desktop is like ones' "home base" of computing, and the laptop is like their "mobile camp". a cell-phone can be more mobile, but is unlikely to be able to replace the above if it is weaker than either of the above. hence, technology forms a gradient...