Reply to post: Re: Desktop Android is the future

PC market sinking even faster than first thought, thanks to Windows 10

Updraft102

Re: Desktop Android is the future

I... can't imagine anything worse. Well, sure I can, but that idea is still pretty frightening.

I don't even find Android to be fit for purpose on the platform for which it was designed, let alone on PCs.

One of the things that makes Windows 10 really poor IMO is that it isn't designed exclusively for the desktop. It tries to be a jack of all trades, and ends up at being a master of none. It's too mobile-oriented for the desktop, and too desktop-oriented for mobiles.

Android, though, is purpose-built as a mobile OS, as it should be. It would be considerably worse on desktops than 10 is now, and it's such a poor match that I could not imagine why Google would want to put so much effort into trying to cram a square peg into a round hole. If they did, it would essentially be another Linux distro, only one with yet another desktop environment and the ability to run apps designed for a very different kind of device.

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