[pavlov]

At least from a developer's point of view there's not much Linux visible in Android.

IMHO, the Android APIs feel like Symbian rewritten in Java... I get the impression that Google has spent five years rushing to add new components to accomodate everything under the sun with no vision of how the stuff fits together, and meanwhile vendors do their own thing that is slightly incompatible with the core. Of course Symbian was worse in every respect, but the end product is worryingly similar.

[tuukkah]

Of course Symbian was worse in every respect

Except less hardware requirements and better battery runtime :-)

[dave1010uk]

And, dare I say it, better multi tasking.