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Old 11-29-2018, 01:55 PM   #36
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I kind of am not annoyed as much about the usability of apps because I find most android apps awful anyways. They're good and well designed in regards to looking stuff up quickly on your phone, not really for day-to-day work IMHO
It is nice to have Android apps available. They add quantity and diversity to the Linux software collection, which could be richer, and Android has good libraries for development. Not really fun to work on it - irate boiling and gnashing of teeth may abound -, but apart from the time wasted since to go from 10 Implementing Street to 16 of the same you had to study more maps than Columbus (with less chance to reach the Indies by chance), you can get things properly done.
Of course, no comparison with the quality of software we found 20 years ago, on ridiculously limited machines. Marvels of technology to run Atari logic. You can use a tablet, but it is always provisional - real work is at the desktop. (Hence my interest in using these tablets as monitors.)


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how shoddily put together it feels [...] the companies involved in eInk do the technology not any favors regarding spread though. Feels kinda like they only want people to read books and books only and screw you if you actually want to use eInk for general purpose computing.

The tablet always felt to me like Onyx couldn't decide if they want to do a general tablet or an eReader, and as a result it ends up lacking in both aspects.
No. I just guess that this is what was practically possible, in the real contextual world.
The «companies involved in E-Ink», in many ways apart from Onyx, see too small a market to act differently.


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If they'd market this thing as an ARM computer with big eInk screen for linux people and open up everything, I bet it could even make some people consider the steep price who wouldn't buy it in it's current (locked) state in a million years.
It takes time, resources, interest, and the good old absolute intention - apart from sales projections etc.
I dream of a device with dualboot, Android and X11/Wayland/etc.
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