For example, it seems to me that with any of those OSes, for example PalmOS, I already have compatibility for software regardless of which (Palm) device I'm using.
Android isn't tied to a specific /vendor/ (unless you count Google, who isn't evil...yet), but each manufacturer must still test and sell their device with Android -- or each user must hack it -- right?
I guess I feel like without widespread adoption and a lot of interoperability with other systems (Outlook, etc), it's not worth much. And I have major concerns about the widespread adoption of this platform in anything less than 5 years. Much, much longer, if it goes anything like Linux on PCs... :-)
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D @ Apr 29th 2008 4:56PM
More info, if you could?
For example, it seems to me that with any of those OSes, for example PalmOS, I already have compatibility for software regardless of which (Palm) device I'm using.
Android isn't tied to a specific /vendor/ (unless you count Google, who isn't evil...yet), but each manufacturer must still test and sell their device with Android -- or each user must hack it -- right?
I guess I feel like without widespread adoption and a lot of interoperability with other systems (Outlook, etc), it's not worth much. And I have major concerns about the widespread adoption of this platform in anything less than 5 years. Much, much longer, if it goes anything like Linux on PCs... :-)