Thread: Can someone tell me why N900 and not Android?
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Rushmore is offline Rushmore
2009-10-30 , 12:26
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#89
Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
I will give you one very good reason. Splintering. I am noticing more and more a fracturing of the android OS. What works on one device will not function on another because of some change that the manufacturer has made to the underlying OS. If this continues the android market is going to be full of "Runs only on" in the description.
Agreed and this defeats a key premise of having the byte code translation in the first place: Uniform app platform for all Android devices.

Still, the 3430 chipset will hide the droids OS inefficiency rather well.