The comment earlier, "unless of course you want your pc to be a thin client with all apps running in the cloud" caught my eye. We are moving to a world where the average computer user, who lacks the sophistication and funds to trick their PC out safely the way even mid-grade techies can, will need to live in the cloud. Sure, everyone says the cloud is not safe, but in comparison to what? A Windows XP machine still running SP 1 with no virus software? I don't think so.
Android PC could be just that - designed to run in the cloud, Google centric, of course (I used to consider myself a Googleholic but recently the bloom is off the rose, but it is still easy to use for the masses), and stocked chock-a-block with apps that PC novices could lease by the hour, the day, or the month. And I am talking everything - productivity apps, email, image editing - maybe not video, which is a PITA over an Internet connection, but everything else. Plus Google Books, Google Maps, Google...yada, yada, yada...
You get my drift. The opiate for the masses isn't religion. It's an Android PC and cloud heaven.
Jennifer
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as we all know Android is very unsecure. I'm all for an Android-driven PC/Laptop/TV/Cell Phone/Can Opener?whatever, but the time to focus on security is a bit overdue IMHO. Other than that, Rock On.
You should not expect Adroid for Pc to be powerful, google just wants more and more source of revenues and that is why they made Chrome book - a totally dumb machine for technically inept people who would simply spend their whole day clicking on Google ads.
Making android for Pc to be a powerful platform would be totally contradicting what they stand for.
Funny even windows 8 seems to be following this line of thought, dumb useless apps that simply want to make you jump online and lick ads
Making android for Pc to be a powerful platform would be totally contradicting what they stand for.
Funny even windows 8 seems to be following this line of thought, dumb useless apps that simply want to make you jump online and lick ads
First, enable us to clean/defrag smartphone drives, as well as removing anything and everything placed on them, by carriers and others, that we do not want. Then and only then, proceed on.
I already have an Android-powered PC--it's called "Logitech Revue" and it doesn't do a quarter as much as my Android phone.
In case you didn't know. Android's kernel is from Linux so from my point of view it is just a modified Linux distro. Just like MAC OS looks like BSD.
Windows NT is VAX VMS in case you didn't know that too.
The only thing M$ actually developed in my view is Windows 95 and then it was converted to XP which people still rave about. The NT stuff maybe made it into vista and then win 7 and since then it has been downhill when the security based on quality issues came rushing in from the Internet connection. The commercial antiviruses do not know at least a third of all existing viruses so we can safely use a MAC, Android, BSD or Linux to avoid malware from the loopholes. If you feel comfortable with Windows because you were born with it in front of you, fine, but I expect the next generation to go from android then to something like PC linux OS or Mint or MAC OS X. I do not expect an android user to be born on a tablet and then accept the security loopholes of viruses or even the concept of an antivirus. People being born today without an antivirus concept are seriously going to shun windows junk in the future. Until their employers force feed the Wintel PC into them, expect change.
Khawar Nehal
http://atrc.net.pk
Windows NT is VAX VMS in case you didn't know that too.
The only thing M$ actually developed in my view is Windows 95 and then it was converted to XP which people still rave about. The NT stuff maybe made it into vista and then win 7 and since then it has been downhill when the security based on quality issues came rushing in from the Internet connection. The commercial antiviruses do not know at least a third of all existing viruses so we can safely use a MAC, Android, BSD or Linux to avoid malware from the loopholes. If you feel comfortable with Windows because you were born with it in front of you, fine, but I expect the next generation to go from android then to something like PC linux OS or Mint or MAC OS X. I do not expect an android user to be born on a tablet and then accept the security loopholes of viruses or even the concept of an antivirus. People being born today without an antivirus concept are seriously going to shun windows junk in the future. Until their employers force feed the Wintel PC into them, expect change.
Khawar Nehal
http://atrc.net.pk
Not to be a downer on your opinion there, but what I can tell Android has issues with malware too. The issue at hand isn't the operating systems, it's their users, always has been. If you're going to watch free episodes of "xxx favorite show here" online through a browser you're going to run into some sites with bad ads that put spyware or malware onto your pc. That's your fault, not Windows.
While yes, Linux based OS' tend to not have any issues with malware/viruses/trojans, because a bad ad is written to hit the most amount of people and the most people to hit exist on a Windows OS, not a Linux one.
Android's market share has went up, even though it's based on Linux it's seeing issues with malware because people are programming it for that OS.
Viruses exist for mac and linux, there just aren't enough people using any kind of Linux/mac OS out there, and not a lot have been made so it's harder to run into.
I was force fed Win/Intel by my school growing up, and I use Win/AMD for personal use and Linux for work (dev/hosting etc). Because I did the research on the operating systems and have used all of them.
Apple - 100%+ Upscale on hardware, and people buy it anyways. OS + Hardware
Microsoft - A little expensive in the retail value of their OS, but most of the market still uses it, business and personal. OS + Software (Slowness? It's your hardware duh!)
Linux/Unix - Free, Open-Source, free programmer driven. OS
Google - Taking Linux and making it useful for phones and tablets, cheap/cheaper to use, but an App/widget driven OS. no Full fledged desktop GUI.
Each has it's uses (though I question Apple, a lot, I appreciate them in the marketplace, but they are ignorant and picky towards retailers for an over priced System + OS combo. Don't sell 50% of your IPAD 2's with Apple Care? YOINK NO PAD FOR j00, one less place for our overpaying customers to get product from us!)
While yes, Linux based OS' tend to not have any issues with malware/viruses/trojans, because a bad ad is written to hit the most amount of people and the most people to hit exist on a Windows OS, not a Linux one.
Android's market share has went up, even though it's based on Linux it's seeing issues with malware because people are programming it for that OS.
Viruses exist for mac and linux, there just aren't enough people using any kind of Linux/mac OS out there, and not a lot have been made so it's harder to run into.
I was force fed Win/Intel by my school growing up, and I use Win/AMD for personal use and Linux for work (dev/hosting etc). Because I did the research on the operating systems and have used all of them.
Apple - 100%+ Upscale on hardware, and people buy it anyways. OS + Hardware
Microsoft - A little expensive in the retail value of their OS, but most of the market still uses it, business and personal. OS + Software (Slowness? It's your hardware duh!)
Linux/Unix - Free, Open-Source, free programmer driven. OS
Google - Taking Linux and making it useful for phones and tablets, cheap/cheaper to use, but an App/widget driven OS. no Full fledged desktop GUI.
Each has it's uses (though I question Apple, a lot, I appreciate them in the marketplace, but they are ignorant and picky towards retailers for an over priced System + OS combo. Don't sell 50% of your IPAD 2's with Apple Care? YOINK NO PAD FOR j00, one less place for our overpaying customers to get product from us!)
I use android on my phone and my tablet, and a full Linux Distro on my desktop, at this point, I don't see turning my pc into a Chromebook as a viable alternative to my current setup.
I am considering a chromebook for my next netbook; netbook, that I believe is how many perceive a chromebook to begin with; and netbooks have fallen off quite a bit since the Eee craze waned. I think Google's net appliance market is likely tablets, Google I think knows it as well, and 4.0 is a safe gamble as it will work fine with that situation, and not much will be lost if the Chromebook is a marketing flop.
Just my 2 cents, love my android devices, and hope to have a Phone and Tablet running 4.x sometime in the near future.
I am considering a chromebook for my next netbook; netbook, that I believe is how many perceive a chromebook to begin with; and netbooks have fallen off quite a bit since the Eee craze waned. I think Google's net appliance market is likely tablets, Google I think knows it as well, and 4.0 is a safe gamble as it will work fine with that situation, and not much will be lost if the Chromebook is a marketing flop.
Just my 2 cents, love my android devices, and hope to have a Phone and Tablet running 4.x sometime in the near future.
I'd rather like to see a virtual PC suite to run Android + apps on Windows-based PC, as an economical alternative to oversized and costly PC software.
If anyone was interested in a Google branded desktop OS then Chromebooks wouldn't be such a dud, but they are.
If you figured out computers on your own you'll only use the techniques that work.This is what I see ROM flashing as.It's magnetic memory chips that work like a pen drive.You record the files into the chips and if you can't delete the file it's a ROM and if you can it's a RAM.There is software out there that will turn your computer's RAM into ROM but the chips load up with an errant strain.In your microwave oven there's the program in ROM that does the 33 Start for coffee warming or the minute plus for Ramen soup.The way that I see it now is that they load these chips up with software.(You'll probably find Windows 11 in there.) All of this software runs too.It file deletes,defragments and even virus scans.Your microwave is rock solid and boots up right away.So the next time you warm up your Coffee think of Microsoft working hard.
I see that Symantec Ghost puts everything in perfectly and is a protected fortress.For hard drives,roughing it in,I see for backup it's partition to image and for restore it's image to disk.I suspect that there's some Norton Ghost image editing software out there so I'll surf the web.It would be like a VMWare type program used to install software into the OS.You do your backup after an install then you could alter it's content with an editor. It could be that your computer's BIOS has Ghost in it.They use a computer to flash.VMWare could be a flasher's program.
The Internet was for industry.A flasher's network.New stuff would come out for your machines and you would update.The fact that it has become popular in homes is very exciting to the network's designers.
It would probably be a good idea to download a copy of NetZero or Juno and it keep on a CD or in a pen drive in case your DSL goes down.You would be able to get your email and so on.NetZero is dial up software and is only a few mb's big.And it's ten hours a month free.It's a quick install but you have to select a local telephone number to dial in with.If you're on DSL you might want to check your dial up mail boxes and delete.Check the compartment departments in your email box too.The trash has to be emptied after a delete.Dial up uses your computer's telephone card.So a telephone cable has to be connected from the computer's phone card to the wall telephone jack.
After experiencing "Windows 8 - Developer Preview", eagerly waiting for launch of the "Windows 8" in the coming year. Can't think of any other OS for my new PC.
Too many android apps think they need full access to everything my phone can do. They all seem to want full Internet access as well configuration rights to all comm protocols as well as the right to basically wipe my phone data of they choose to. Makes you wonder a little about the devs intentions too. I won't have anything to do with a computer that operates that way.
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