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waybj 8th Apr 2009
"For a Netbook, you really need to be able to view a full Web for the total Internet experience," Wong said.

Ummm.. what? What does that sentence even mean? And how does it directly relate to Android? Android has been developed for smartphones; it would be unreasonable to think it would make its way to netbooks without changes to make it more similar to a normal PC interface (personally, I would like to see them put Gnome or something on it for netbooks; Gnome has a pretty intuitive layout, and people have gotten Xorg working on the G1 with support for gnome, kde, xfe, etc). Putting Gnome on it would also make it compatible with a lot of standard Linux apps that require the Gnome libs, and I think it would fit well on netbooks. And yet I still don't see how it relates to that sentence I quoted.

With some work, I really don't see how Android would be bad for netbooks. Then again, I don't necessarily see how it would stand out any more than any other distro for netbooks besides the fact that it has the Google name backing it.
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