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by GrandMasterBirt 5655 days ago
Android cannot be the new "windows" because alot of decisions leading up to windows in it's current incarnation were driven by the anti-competitive nature of Microsoft. Android takes the best aspects of windows' business strategies and incorporates them in an open environment.

So I guess if you are saying android is the phone to run on a bunch of random hardware which will outsell apple, yes, android is the new windows of cellphones. In the end it's closer to a user-friendly linux.
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auxbuss 5655 days ago
For those unfamiliar with the alot:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...

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Qz 5655 days ago
If by 'user-friendly linux' you mean 'linux without any of the linux showing' then yes. I can't stand linux, but android is great.
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ryandvm 5655 days ago
Actually, what you can't stand is the GNU tool chain and other various accompaniments like X11 that are considerably long in the tooth. Technically, Linux is a very, very small part of the average Linux distribution. Hell, you can sub out Linux for one of the BSD kernels and the average user would have no idea.
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GrandMasterBirt 5655 days ago
Linux is a bit different than people expect:

To me linux is everything under the hood. The File System, The Kernel, the Open Sourcing of the two, and everything built on top of that.

"I can't stand linux" only tells me that you need to log off from the internet because guess what most is run on.

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Qz 5655 days ago
Right, but my issue is directed at the people who use Android. It didn't start outselling iPhone because of techies like us alone - 'normal' people use it, 'normal' people who would otherwise never use 'linux' and probably don't realize they're already using it on their phone, and the key to that is they got rid of all* the parts about linux that cause headaches for average users.
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