How About an iPhone OS Or Android-Based Netbook?

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 23, 2008 @11:31PM from the upsides-and-downsides dept.

perlow (Jason Perlow of ZDNet) suggests that the current crop of netbooks might be missing the boat when it comes to getting maximum battery life and small-screen usability, and asks "Could Mac OS X iPhone or Google's Android be the key to mass adoption of the next generation of netbooks?" Android looks pretty nice, I admit, but so far I like having full-fledged Ubuntu on my own small computer. He's not the first one to think that the iPhone would be well-employed as the guts of an ultra-portable, though. (Note: it's only a model.)

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Re:Because those OS's don't have the apps I want? by intheshelter · 2008-11-24 02:23 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Yeah! And everyone should STFU unless this idiot can run DOS on iPhone and Android, and his phone should also use vacuum tubes and should be powered by coal fired steam!
Maybe you should pipe down until your views are shared by at least a fraction of 1% of the rest of the world?