http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/ Engadget Comments for Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 27th 2009 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/
Some will say WINE is a bad idea because programmers will still program poorly because they can (Win32, etc.)... some will say it's a good idea to get people to step in the door to Linux... I think it's a little of each.]]>May 26th 2009 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/The humanoid with humanity !

Btw , this could be awesome if executed properly.]]>May 26th 2009 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/Instead of some convoluted name, they should just call it Replicant (a different type of Android...).
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Android is simply not a desktop OS. Sure, it might one day become one... but why wait when there's a perfectly fine (actually, fantastic) Linux OS available in Ubuntu. ]]>May 26th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/]]>May 26th 2009 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/
Cause Android works in a extremely low footprint (smaller than DSL, and around 128MB) with an intuitive interface, and efficient on battery, and lots of features, and actually runs good power management, and has not bloat-ware, and has a sandbox, and....

Other distros can just compile the dalvik VM at the kernel level and then it's available on every linux distro. Nice experiment, but Android is more compelling on netbooks than any of the current Linux distros. Of course, Linux is common on both which is the right choice.]]>May 26th 2009 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/If you want video you can use SKYPE (Works as well as it does on Windows, with video).
I personally think Yahoo should make a Linux version of their client at least if they want to compete with Skype and Google.

]]>May 26th 2009 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/
Linux will work best with native Linux apps, so I find as many alternate open source apps as I can before heading to wine, as well as letting companies know that I'd really appreciate it if they could release a Linux version. The more people who make the switch the easier it will be to advocate for native apps. I think that we'll see more and more of this, especially with platforms like Android coming down the pike.

Most of the time, when it comes to things like Yahoo not supporting Linux then I just don't use it (even in the cases where the app does run in Wine). Obviously, there's times when it's kind of a dealbreaker for your OS, in which case I'd encourage someone to stay with Windows.]]>May 26th 2009 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/
Educating people that there are 'great alternatives' is pointless because you're ignoring the fact that there's inertia and a real cost in terms of time and money to switch from something that works to something that *might* work.

Ergo, either you have to come up with some new killer app that people really want, but can't get without switching to Linux (and no - in case you've missed it - 'reliability' and 'security' aren't it), or make the new app as painless and seamless as possible while making the cost of transition as low as possible (and no - that's not 'how much does the package cost' - Mac users understand this).]]>May 26th 2009 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/But this is very exciting.
The screenlets project has not seen much action for too long.
]]>May 26th 2009 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/Mind you I'm not into android (or cellphones in general) so I didn't delve too much into android.
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This is a pretty sweet idea. There's a couple of nice apps that could be really worthwhile for a netbook and would push even more development on the Android side. ]]>May 26th 2009 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/May 26th 2009 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/I can't wait to see it!]]>May 26th 2009 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/Hopefully they'll be able to work out a way for this project to have access to the marketplace ... since open source Android doesn't currently have that.]]>May 26th 2009 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/
[http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/21/flow-is-like-the-ikea-bookshelf-of-android-phones]]]>May 26th 2009 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://merrigan.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/netbooks-could-change-everything/]]>May 26th 2009 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/26/canonical-giving-ubuntu-the-gift-of-android-apps/
Hopefully, this is only the beginning. Android, Moblin & Ubuntu each have something unique to offer on netbooks & it would be nice to see their strengths blended, to create a really killer netbook experience.]]>May 26th 2009 10:26PM