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So a couple guys got Android running on a netbook and they predict that Android netbooks will be commonplace by 2010. My question is why? Aside from the regular Windows choices, there are a bunch of Linux distros out there for free to use with a netbook. Google is going to have to work pretty damn hard to make Android a serious competitor in the netbook market. Am I right or whacked out of my melon?

It took us about four hours of work to compile Android for the netbook. Having done so, we (Daniel Hartmann, that is) got the netbook fully up and running on it, with nearly all of the necessary hardware you’d want (including graphics, sound and the wireless card for internet) running.
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I wouldn't underestimate the power of the google brand on this one, integrated gmail, google docs, youtube, and all apps google on an android netbook seems like a pretty compelling package if done correctly. since most people use their netbooks for only browsing and lite usage anyways.
 
cbutters said:
I wouldn't underestimate the power of the google brand on this one, integrated gmail, google docs, youtube, and all apps google on an android netbook seems like a pretty compelling package if done correctly. since most people use their netbooks for only browsing and lite usage anyways.
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Right, but Android is geared towards a mobile interface. Its the same reason you wouldn't want to be running an iPhone or Blackberry OS on a netbook. Different OSes and interfaces for different physical platforms.

The only reason for wanting to do this is for the novelty of running a Google branded operating system on something other than a phone. You'd still be better off running a proper desktop OS since that is what they were expressly made for.
 
hm...depends...what's the forecast for multi-touch netbooks?
 
I hope the people who did this release there copy so I can try it out on my Acer Aspire One.
 
I think that's an interesting possibility, and would be very applicable to a touch-screen netbook. Apple will probably announce their larger touch-screen netbook based on the touch framework. It would make sense that Google would be working on something similar.

A netbook is not intended to be a desktop replacement. It is intended to provide a usable interface to work on the internet. Netbooks are already created with the idea that there are internet applications running on servers that do most of the computing. It only makes sense for Google to want to provide the client layer of their cloud-computing model. This is the whole philosophy behind Google's long term strategy. An Android netbook would be fit PERFECTLY into Google's plans.
 
Man, Google could find Jimmy Hoffa if they wanted to. Putting Android on netbooks gets done subconciously.
 
acording to MSI linux netbooks are returned at 3x (4x?) the rate of windows ones. Unless google can make very large strides in Works Just Like WIndows putting android netbooks in retail's going to be painful.
 
Google is already having a hard time making Android a serious competitor in the cellphone market.

That said, I think an Android netbook is the next logical step.
 
If this becomes downloadable, I will waste no time putting it on my AAO. I can't seem to get enough of Google's products.
 
Stoly said:
Google is already having a hard time making Android a serious competitor in the cellphone market.
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This.

Canonical is much more likely to be successful with Ubuntu on ARM-based netbooks (a.k.a. sub-$200 toys) than google hopes for Android.
 
Stoly said:
Google is already having a hard time making Android a serious competitor in the cellphone market.
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Respectfully, I disagree, there is only one android phone so far, and there are already several more that will be announced, and come to market, within the year. Being open-sourced and made to utilize Google's online suite, which does have a very high market penetration, gives Android serious promise. The fact that it hasn't yet acheived much market penetration does not mean Google is having a hard time making it a competitor. It means the phone manufacturers are making ugly phones that don't have the sex appeal of the iPhone.

When someone makes a sexy Android phone, the game will change. What you have to remember is that Google is not HTC and Android is not the G1. They are distinct entities and a correlation cannot be determined based on a single offering by HTC. HTC rushed the device because they wanted to be first to market with the Android platform. My point is that the platform and concept is good. You can't judge the platform based solely on the penetration of the G1.

Ubuntu isn't a competitor to Android in any way. Android is designed to be a client layer, Ubtuntu is designed to be a full operating system. A comparison between the two is irrelevent. Android fits much nicer into a netbook than ubuntu, since it was designed for computers with lesser processing capabilities, and is a system that is designed to be much easier to use for mobile devices (such as future netbooks).
 
i think android will be snuffed out by all the world corporations that dont want google making os's.
 
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