Google's Android To Challenge Windows?

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 3, 2009 @04:31AM from the depends-how-strong-the-android-is dept.

PL/SQL Guy writes "Search giant Google is set to offer its free Android mobile-phone operating system for computers, opening a new front in its rivalry with Microsoft by challenging the dominance of the company's Windows software. Acer Inc., the world's second-largest laptop maker, will release a low-cost notebook powered by Android next quarter, said Jim Wong, head of information-technology products at the Taipei-based company. Calvin Huang, an analyst at Daiwa Securities Group Inc, says that adoption of Android-based netbooks will likely eat into Windows' share of PC operating systems." Meanwhile, notes reader Barence, Asus is continuing to distance itself from Android, saying it "isn't a priority."

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You aren't listening by westlake · 2009-06-03 09:31 · Score: 0, Redundant

If you could buy a typical sized netbook that could just do email and browse the internet...nobody would care which OS it used.
This is the product that is DOA but won't lie down.
The product the stock boy at WalMart drop-kicks into the dumpster.
It's the 99 pound weakling Charles Atlas pounds into the sand. The clapped-out Yugo the geek drives to work.