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   #21. Posted at 07:35 PM on Jan 3rd 2009 Edit   Reply
Xenolith
Google is an advertising company. That is how they make money. They are only going to put Android on computers if they can make money. Android based netbooks will be advertising platforms.
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#21, Google also makes money from services and hardware.  :  indeego  (#22)  «
#22, No, everything they do is to support their advertising bu...  :  Xenolith  (#23)  «
#23, Google apps, appliance, message security off the top o...  :  indeego  (#25)  «

   #24. Posted at 09:47 AM on Jan 4th 2009 Edit   Reply
thermistor
#19...word.
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   #1. Posted at 04:02 PM on Jan 2nd 2009 Edit   Reply
TheEmrys
Gotta say, this sort of portability is awfully exciting.
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#1, Interesting, seems to be the beginning of Google's assault o...  :  khands  (#2)  «
#2, Prediction: in 6-9 years it will be as cool to h8t upon G...  :  MadManOriginal  (#5)  «
#5, I'm already a couple years into h8ting on Google. No p...  :  AMDguy  (#6)  «
#6, Word! Damn ad-mongerers... :-)  :  Imperor  (#7)  «
#5, I've already got a few problems with Google. Mostly wi...  :  BobbinThreadbare  (#14)  «
#5, more like g00g£€  :  no51  (#20)  «
#2, if you think it's only just started now, you've missed a ...  :  eitje  (#12)  «

   #19. Posted at 03:00 PM on Jan 3rd 2009 Edit   Reply
albundy
GOS ftw!
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   #18. Posted at 10:24 AM on Jan 3rd 2009, Edited at 10:25 AM on Jan 3rd 2009 Edit   Reply
Voldenuit
EDIT: Oops, never mind.
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   #4. Posted at 06:26 PM on Jan 2nd 2009 Edit   Reply
ace24
Pretty cool, the question to me is why? I run a full linux installation on my netbook with no problems, its hard to see why one would scale down so much on a platform that quite capable of running a fully featured OS.

To me this is akin to running the iPhone OS on a Macbook instead of OS X.... why?
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#4, Well, a slimmed down OS will leave more performance for actu...  :  Imperor  (#8)  «
#4, You only need to accomplish certain tasks with the netbook, ...  :  BobbinThreadbare  (#10)  «
#4, Android is Linux and I don't see why wouldn't it be fully fe...  :  muyuubyou  (#13)  «
#13, Well I don't think it's compatible with Gnome or KDE appl...  :  BobbinThreadbare  (#15)  «
#15, all they have to do is put something in to handle non-...  :  designerfx  (#17)  «

   #16. Posted at 07:14 AM on Jan 3rd 2009, Edited at 07:15 AM on Jan 3rd 2009 Edit   Reply
FireGryphon
Android probably uses less resources, and since it's less complicated an OS, it's probably much easier to use than a full OS.

Bah, meant this as a reply to #4.
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   #9. Posted at 07:10 PM on Jan 2nd 2009 Edit   Reply
Maddog
The "The Imperial March" starts playing the background ...
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#9, whoops, wrong reply.  :  BobbinThreadbare  (#11)  «

   #3. Posted at 04:21 PM on Jan 2nd 2009 Edit   Reply
bowman
It looks way cool on the Eee. If they come up with a functioning port for my NC10 I'd be tempted to give it a go..
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