[opendtv] Re: FRe: You can now run Android apps on a Mac or PC with Google Chrome | The Verge
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 09:00:16 -0400
On Apr 5, 2015, at 8:36 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Very interesting, that Google has found a way to allow the consumer to run
any Android app on any device, in spite of the hardware makers' best efforts
to keep things balkanized. I would not be surprised if we'll see lawsuits
over this.
Not any device, just PCs and Android devices. And as the article stated, many
apps need hardware not found in PCs like accelerometers. This is not unlike
what Microsoft is trying to do with the Surface Pro; trying to make two
different user interfaces work on one device. There is a reason that the User
Interfaces are different, just as there was a valid reason not to run Flash on
mobile devices.
Why would Apple drop support for a popular browser like Chrome?
Contrary to what Bert believes, Apple is very supportive of third party apps
that can run on both Mac OS and iOS. But It is the third parties that have to
make the effort. It took Microsoft several years to bring "Office" Apps to iOS,
but they finally understood that they were losing customers because of their
foot dragging. After Apple released the buggy first version of Maps for iOS,
Google quickly released an iOS version of Google Maps.
Curated ecosystems are not necessarily walled gardens, they just have rules
that help protect the users of that ecosystem. Even Windows is a "walled
garden;" it's just not curated very well.
Regards
Craig
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