Microsoft turns to Linux for help!
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Yay, Microsoft has turned to Linux for help having failed to shift their miserable operating system on phones they are now going to make Nokia phones with Android.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nokia-to-launch-smartphone-driven-by-googles-android-2014-02-11?link=MW_latest_news
Something that we all said Nokia should have been doing years ago even before they were gutted by MS:
From the article:
"The Nokia phones will differ from most other Android smartphones, and won’t access some Google-developed features or Android apps from the Google Play storefront, said the people familiar with the matter."
Oh, well, doomed to failure. Some people just don't get the idea.
This is all off topic for this forum, just don't expect any Propeller interaction action with your Windows phone any time soon.
P.S. Thinking about it I might even have this wrong. Maybe they are putting the Android run time on a Windows kernel or something ghastly like that. Hence the no Play store thing.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nokia-to-launch-smartphone-driven-by-googles-android-2014-02-11?link=MW_latest_news
Something that we all said Nokia should have been doing years ago even before they were gutted by MS:
From the article:
"The Nokia phones will differ from most other Android smartphones, and won’t access some Google-developed features or Android apps from the Google Play storefront, said the people familiar with the matter."
Oh, well, doomed to failure. Some people just don't get the idea.
This is all off topic for this forum, just don't expect any Propeller interaction action with your Windows phone any time soon.
P.S. Thinking about it I might even have this wrong. Maybe they are putting the Android run time on a Windows kernel or something ghastly like that. Hence the no Play store thing.
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There are a huge amount of chinese phones without google play or other google app, but easy to fix as 1.2.3.
So I doubt, that guys @ nokia don't know this trick. I believe, they will be putting in some kind of hardware lock, preventing 3rd party access to kernel levels.
I think the Nokia guys know all about what goes on with rooting phones and cyanogenmod. I suspect they would rather it was not locked so that they don't shut themselves out of the market. How badly would they like to shoot themselves in what's left of the stumps of where their feet use to be?
MS on the other hand...