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by wstrange 3716 days ago
I think you are underestimating the amount of work that goes into producing a high quality mobile O/S.

Someone has to fund that effort.
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ocdtrekkie 3716 days ago
And various interests building products based on Android will fund it or directly contribute. Note: Development on Linux happens.
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victorhooi 3716 days ago
Yes, and it's totally the year of the Linux desktop....not.

Look, I love Linux as much as the next guy - and I plodded along with Slackware, then Ubuntu, then Arch as my main machine for many years. Heck, I even used Gentoo as my main box for a while.

But let's be completely honest - Linux on the desktop compared to say OSX, or Windows, or even ChromeOS - doesn't even hold a candle, in terms of cohesive UX design, user experience, general polish etc.

So whilst the OSS community seems great at some things, UX design and the user experience for the non-technical user hasn't been one of them.

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ocdtrekkie 3716 days ago
I think there's some great community-designed projects out there now (particularly in the web app space). Linux isn't one of them, obviously, but is that because it's open source or because design and consumer friendliness hasn't been a strong focus for the majority of it's contributors?

I would suggest Android is a much more consumer focused product, whereas Linux has been a much more IT focused product, and their development priorities reflect that.

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