[Ilugc] Hardware and Software Bloat in Tablet Computers
- From: lug at chandrashekar.info (lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:00:57 +0530
Apple knew exactly what hardware their OS was going to run on and
they optimized it awesomely.
Very true. We need hardware companies that build on Linux and to
focus on a similar feat. But I'm afraid that it takes a lot of
stubborn-ness and arrogance with a perfectionist attitude to come up
with something comparable to Apple.
While the core Linux kernel developers work with such an attitude (that
resulted in the most successful, optimized and feature-rich OS kernel),
the same attitude is somewhat lacking amongst hardware vendors and
integrators that incorporate Linux into their product-lines.
I do sense a trail of stubborn-ness by folks at Canonical and the
Ubuntu community in general in not compromising to anything thats
below their expectations - which in turn did result in a very high
quality product (Ubuntu family of distributions).
Google on the other hand ironically by making Android free, allowed
the OS stack to be installed on cheap, low power processor driven
Chinese phones and got a bad name. Poor OS response and very bad
battery performance.
Making Android "free" was a good move. This allowed more hardware
vendors to incorporate them into their products and helped them
build a more open eco-system. But I guess, they should get rid of
VM cruft and come up with a completely full-stack user-land build
optimized for native performance and provide more thorough API stack
for writing native applications with rich content and UI elements.
Cheers,
Chandrashekar
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Chandrashekar Babu
http://www.chandrashekar.info/
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