bwat wrote:
Eh? Just by looking at sales alone we see that plenty of system designers see ARM as an alternative to the x86 architecture.
I should remind that the discussion was about "how simple we can recompile for a new platform". And it seems not so easy trick, even if ARM's market share is somewhere near 25%.
bwat wrote:
embryo wrote:
In case of Android there was no such time (like 10 years). And costs were not the main problem.
Android has nothing to do with systems development and its development costs shouldn't be seen in that context (or at least not placed in comparison with other OS development costs and constraints). Android is part of a bigger picture put in place by a company that sells advertising.
Almost all OSes, to be really useful OS, can only dream about Android's way. There are just Windows, Linux and MacOS(iOS) - and that's all really useful OSes. Android related human-years investments are much bigger than in any not mentioned here OS.
Android mobile operating system will reach a user base of almost two billion in 2014 - it is a sign of really usefull OS. And would Google have any wish to have trully independent OS core - it can have it in a year or even less. But the main part of really usefull OS is it's applications and Android really has it.
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