Ubuntu Coming To Android Smartphones

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:42:06AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> The fact that there's no code available yet puts my expectations entirely low.
> 
> There's a lot *wrong* with it...

I certainly don't want it.

> a) No code drop yet.  If it were a *real* free software project, you
> drop code *before* doing pretty demos.
> 
> b) Requires recompiling for each variation of CPU hardware that'll
> come.  The non-need for that is one of the merits of Java...
> 
> c) Yay, yet another language/API combination with zero intersection
> with existing mobile development usage.  (Or perhaps Windows Mobile is
> using C++?  I'm not sure...)  Gotta reimplement Mozilla yet again.

Windows Phone uses .net runtime with hence similar merits as java.
It's bytecode.

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