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[Nathan Haines <nhaines@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/17/2014 05:02 AM, Oliver Propst wrote:
> Sure, but I think if they really want expand and create the a similar atmosphere
> around it as the desktop operating system they should try to work closer
> with the the community.

They can't work more closely with the community, really.  It's already 
the same as the desktop operating system, simply with a different shell 
and display manager.  Everything's open source and publicly available.

The fact is, porting to new ARM architectures is extremely hard work and 
no one's interested.  The only port I know of that's working is the 
Nexus 5, and even that's been broken the last couple of weeks.  And 
that's probably only working because it's mostly the same as the Nexus 7.

Pretty much every other port I've seen gets to a point where it displays 
graphics and is then unceremoniously abandoned.  I'd like to think that 
once there's an RTM image that some serious ports will pop up, but until 
then it's just Nexus 4, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10 by Canonical, and bq and 
Meizu are doing their own ports to their own hardware.

This is identical to how Android works, if I'm not mistaken--each OEM 
does the port themself.

Anyone who's interested in software development in the meantime can 
write and test apps on their desktop and then do further testing on the 
emulator.  This is identical to device testing and has been around for a 
year and a half.

The only thing I think is severely deficient is any indication 
whatsoever of what the design team is doing, but even then there's no 
time for bikeshed arguments.

What exactly do you think it is that is lacking?

Regards,
Nathan

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