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Originally Posted by covfam
i fear the "open" android will eventually become what unix is. unix and its various offshoots is very good. but mainstream does not touch it at all except apples OSX & IOS. Android is based off of linux wich in turn is based off of Unix as well but if you keep it too open you will get what happened to linux (only techies use it)
you need to streamline it and make it sexy and user friendly "dont confuse it with techie friendly"
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IMHO, the user unfriendly-ness of linux and android is WAY exaggerated.
Most people don't use linux just because they have never heard of it.
Market is always biased toward market leader, and a market leader tries to make best use of it. For example, OSX itself was at first very frequently advertised by its openness and being unix. But these days, apple is trying hard to deviate OSX from other unix OSes AFTER achieving some success, not the other way around.
If you are suggesting that this path is what google android has to go,
I would rather choose another new alternative instead.