ARM executive says “Android not good enough for netbooks”
Every week, we hear a lot of manufactures that are going to use ARM chip+Android combo on their netbooks. According to them, this will help them to create cheap netbooks that provide decent web-experience on-the-go.
“I do think that there is more work that can and will be done to bring the things we love about Android into form factors (netbooks). Android is still optimized for smartphones,” said Kerry McGuire, director of strategic alliances at ARM
Frankly speaking, this is something we did not see coming. A lot of manufactures are working hard on releasing netbooks at the end of this year or early next year and if the Google Android does not behaves nicely on ARM-powered netbooks, it can be detrimental to the Android developers and the whole Android community.
ARM processors are still not x86 compatible and thus do not have the ability to run desktop operating systems like Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. Although, it can run other popular OS like Ubuntu Linux and Windows CEÂ embedded, but those are not *enough* to make a lot of people buy non-x86 compatible products.
Best way would be using Android on Atom processors which are x86-compatible. Acer already has a similar netbook in the tunnel which will be released later this year.
[via xbitlabs]
edit: mistake in the heading: It was “ARM not suitable..”. It should be “Android not suitable..” We apologize for the mistake
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Your title is completely wrong.
*Android* is not suitable for netbooks. Not ARM.
Why would ARM say anything like this about a market they are trying to get in to?
Time to drop you from my feed….
Well, thanks for pointing out the mistake. We are human beings and we make mistakes :)
ARM has said it themselves. If you do not believe it, you can click on the original source given in the post
Duh, the whole article is wrong. You say that Android doesn’t behave well on ARM and Intel Atom processors would be more suitable. That’s NOT what the man said, he said that Android is still best suited for smartphones, which actually usually use ARM processors, not Atom. So, Android is perfectly fine with ARM processors – he just thinks it’s not yet suited for bigger screens.