When a companysaysthey’re act upon on anAndroid netbook , people make assumption : they ’ll come up with a fresh UI ; they ’ll supply the netbook ’s hardware to Google ’s lightweight OS ; they ’ll make it cheap . Acer is doing none of these things .
https://gizmodo.com/acer-planning-an-android-netbook-for-q3-of-this-year-5275329
Their Android netbook will actually be anWindows XPnetbook , in that it ’ll ship in a double - kick form . This vocalise harmless enough , but it ’s not :
[ Acer Chairman ] Wang pointed out that the double - atomic number 76 strategy is much safer for Acer since consumer acceptance of the Android platform is unreadable for the time being … Acer will be capable to promote Android as a note value - added feature , exchangeable to Asustek Computer ’s Express Gate , to calculate for any price premium .
To characterise Android as a note value - add feature is to miss the point totally , the level being that Android is free , and XP is not . Bundling a lame , for the most part untouched rendering of Android into an be netbook relegate the atomic number 76 to novelty status , which is n’t what we — or any other netbook watchers — had in mind in the beginning this workweek . [ Digitimes ]
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