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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I would argue that a smartphone or tablet has far more similarity to a PC than to an embedded microcontroller (  where did you pull that ridiculous comparison from, if you want to talk about "disingenuous")... or even a single-use embedded system.
Don't you own a Surface tablet? Is that an embedded device, just because it uses a mobile form factor?
What, precisely, is your inscrutable determining factor between "general-purpose OS" and "dedicated, invisible-to-the-user"?
Because it sounds like your definition of "embedded device" refers more to user knowledge than device design; I could easily make the case that a Windows 8 desktop rig is an embedded device according to what you just said. G-d knows, a lot of people wouldn't be able to tell the difference.  |
A book on Windows will guide you effectively on many aspects of using a Surface tablet.
A book on Linux will guide on using a PC running just about any distro of Linux.
A book on Linux will do exactly squat in guiding you to use an Android device. Or a Kindle. Or a washing machine.
Someone with more than my Hello World experience with Linux and Android dev can correct me if I'm wrong, but a book on Linux development won't help any with Android development.
Because using Android is not using Linux in any more a meaningful sense than using a Kindle is.
Not sure why you're being obstinate on this point. I suspect you, like most others reading, understand the distinction perfectly well.