Android soon to be dead on Tablets and ARM also?


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With Intel Bay Trail out and Windows 8.1 pro not rt tablets coming out at 200 can buy refurbished ones online like the dell venue 8 for 170 usd on ebay with 32 gig HD. do you think android tablets and ARM processor days are limited when people can have a tablet but also option for desktop mode in full windows 8 desktop. Soon future they will be cheap and powerfull enough with enough ports to have just even an 8 inch tablet with docking station and powerfull enough to us as desktop.

 

Used to be Android or iOS was scaled down OS because x86 processors to hot and big etc to use mobile but things have changed now and are changing rapidly.

 

Even many Android tablets with less specs are more expensive now. Such as Samsung tab 4 8.0 is 269 usd with only 16 gig hard drive and 2 gigs ram

 

 

So do you think androids and arm processor days are limited?

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Android can run on Intel. Many people buy Androids because it isn't Windows and it isn't iOS.

I don't think Android is going anywhere.

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No. Android isn't really losing popularity, nor have I seen any evidence at all that Windows is currently a serious threat to it's dominance.

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I'd sooner see Android make a succesful move to the desktop than Windows making a succesful move to tablets.

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Android can run on Intel. Many people buy Androids because it isn't Windows and it isn't iOS.

I don't think Android is going anywhere.

It is known that Android can run on x86 - I posted a thread on exactly that (Android x86 - KitKat meets Kentsfield?) in the Android subforum.

 

However, the same folks that whack RT despise the very idea of Android on x86 - even NATIVE Android on x86 (which was the point of the thread).

 

One reason that I am investigating Android on x86 is not just as a Linux alternative, but an XP alternative - Android can run on old hardware (as has been the case with Linux distributions or Knoppix).

 

The other reason as to "why Android" is familiarity - more folks are familiar with Android than a Linux distribution.

 

Lastly, the biggest advantage that Android has (not just over Linux distributions, but over Windows) is casual gaming.  (I have called casual gaming the Achilles' heel of Windows as an operating system - it's not merely a ModernUI problem.  With Android (as an adjunct with virtualization-based launchers such as BlueStacks, or natively on older repurposed hardware) doesn't need the bigger games - it has every casual game that is available for Android tablets on tap.  (The casual games that can't run on Android for x86 are those that can't run on tablets, either.)

 

The reason for ARM is going away (after all, the reasons FOR ARM are longer battery life and greater mobility) - however, Android itself is not in any danger.

 

(Remember, despite the moribundity of RISC, neither NT or Solaris - the two major RISC-based operating systems - went anywhere.)

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Doesn't Android on Intel have a tonne of app incompatibility? 

No, actually.  What "app incompatibility" Android for x86 has is actually shared with tablets; it's a modal factor, not a code factor.  (If an Android application will work on a tablet in landscape mode, it will work on Android x86, or even BlueStacks in landscape mode.  If an application requires "portrait mode"/smartphone mode, it won't work on tablets, or BlueStacks, or Android x86.  It's called "modal absolutism" - and is not unique to Android; iOS has a similar issue with applications that won't work on iPAds, but will work on an iPhone.)

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No. Android isn't really losing popularity, nor have I seen any evidence at all that Windows is currently a serious threat to it's dominance.

Where x86 CAN become a threat to ARM (not necessarily to Android) is in terms of price - ARM requires Android; however, Android doesn't require ARM.

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No, actually.  What "app incompatibility" Android for x86 has is actually shared with tablets; it's a modal factor, not a code factor.  (If an Android application will work on a tablet in landscape mode, it will work on Android x86, or even BlueStacks in landscape mode.  If an application requires "portrait mode"/smartphone mode, it won't work on tablets, or BlueStacks, or Android x86.  It's called "modal absolutism" - and is not unique to Android; iOS has a similar issue with applications that won't work on iPAds, but will work on an iPhone.)

 

Intel themselves admit that 95% of apps that use dalvik are compatible with Android on intel, but only 70% of apps that use NDK are compatible. 

 

http://m.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2182314/intel-claims-atom-chip-run-cent-android-applications

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Intel themselves admit that 95% of apps that use dalvik are compatible with Android on intel, but only 70% of apps that use NDK are compatible. 

 

http://m.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2182314/intel-claims-atom-chip-run-cent-android-applications

In my case, I ran straight-up tests by running actual Android applications on a Galaxy Tab 2, BlueStacks, GenyMotion (both tablet and smartphone modes) and native Android x86.  Where I ran into issues were with any application that required portrait mode - basically, applications aimed at smartphones.  They would only run on GenyMotion in "smartphone mode" - they would NOT run in "tablet/landscape mode".  Look at the various Android fora on Reddit - if there is one thing that brings scathing criticism about Android on Reddit, it's this.  The criticism isn't just from GenyMotion users, either - it comes from tablet owners, too.

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