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Microsoft may have sidelined its effort to allow Android apps to run unmodified on Windows 10. But Windows users have been able to do this on PCs for over a year at very low cost - thanks to a cunning virtualization project.
DuOS, or AmiDuOS, is an emulator that provides excellent compatibility for Android apps on the desktop. And perhaps unsurprisingly it survived an interesting history of tussles with Google before staking its claim.
[...] If this is the shape of things to come, it poses some intriguing strategic questions for Microsoft. Microsoft risks losing the developer client base that it has been able to take for granted for two decades. Windows has a huge app gap, and is marginal in mobile and tablets. Ideally, Microsoft wants developers to write to a Universal API that is compatible across Windows PCs and ARM-based mobile devices such as tablets and phones. But the apps have already been written, in Java, for Android.
Credit: Posted by RS Wood on comp.misc
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday December 09 2015, @05:44PM
I like your thinking. Believe me, I know we have a software bloat problem. A really big one. My suggesting Linux was merely one of practicality, something that would be taken seriously by the current industry.
As for plan9, someone needs to make it happen. The only second system that did the inverse of second system effect, it was actually much, much simpler and fixed the broken unix model.
Ever read up on the styx on a brick project? Really neat stuff right there. 9p really can do it all. Wish my phone exposed its file system via 9p so I can view my pictures via phone/camera/pictures/ instead of the idiotic MTP protocol, another fuking brain dead protocol that masquerades as a storage device but isnt. FFS, How many file protocols do we need? Then my phone connects via USB to my car radio but I can't control the music player unless it's the app that comes with the dumb radio. Why? yet another fucking protocol. Just expose the audio and player controls as files via 9p and your done. At that point everything can be controlled by shell scripts if need be. What is the current song playing: cat phone/musicplayer/playing. Skip to next track: echo next_track > phone/musicplayer/control. Need the audio stream: mediaplayer phone/audio/audio_stream. Want to adjust the 3 band EQ: echo "3, -1, 4" > phone/musicplayer/eq. Want to save the eq setting: cat phone/musicplayer/eq > fav_eq.txt. Bought an IP security camera and want to see the video: vlc ipcamera1/video. And the list of what it can solve goes on and on and on. Might not cover every case. But can certainly cover a vast majority of little day to day things that drive me up the wall needing a plethora of mutually incompatible libraries that need linking and software to use them. The computing world would be a much better place. Sorry for the rant but I'm tired of the shitty software world.