Thread: Anssi Vanjoki says using Android is like pissing in your pants for warmth
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-09-27 , 04:59
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Originally Posted by craftyguy View Post
Exactly. My point is that area is wide open to innovation. There's nothing preventing hardware manufacturers from spending some serious R&D in this area (and others) to gain a competitive advantage even though they're still using the same OS as their competitors.
The manufacturers in question (Nokia, Motorola, HTC) aren't the companies that will be researching those innovations though. That will be done by companies like Sony's battery group, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm, the ones that actually produce the parts. So in the end they'll all improve at roughly the same rate, as the true innovations are abstracted out one more level.

Originally Posted by bergie View Post
Apparently this is exactly what the WeTab MeeGo tablet does.
Not quite. It doesn't run as a MeeGo process, but in its own VM. So you have a VM in a VM. This isn't necessarily bad, and the VM is virtualbox so it's open source, but it's not as thin a layer as it could be. I also wonder if the Atom chip used in the WeTab supports hardware virtualization, if not it might be rather slow.

You still can't access the market, so I don't quite see the value.