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Google Android OS on Netbooks From SearchITChannel By getting Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other hardware OEMs to consider the Android operating system for their netbooks, Google has ripped a page right out of Microsoft's playbook. Read more on the Front Page: Google Android OS on Netbooks |
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This is stupid. Android is a great smartphone platform but a crappy netbook platform. Mobile computing should be getting closer to a PC experience, not further away. Give me a netbook-optimized Ubuntu or Moblin distrobution so I can run real applications, not just the ones Google wants me to use. Arstechnica sums it up better than I can: Quote:
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Moblin imo is where it should be heading.
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