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Android Ported To iPhone

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-can-you-go-the-other-way dept.

anethema writes "iPhone hacker planetbeing, from the iPhone Dev Team, has successfully ported the Android OS over to the iPhone. He is doing it on a first-generation iPhone, but others may be possible. The port is pretty functional, with data, voice, and many apps working, although it is running a bit sluggish and buggy at the moment. There appears to be much work left."

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  1. I think I just jizzed myself by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't believe it. Someone's answered my dreams!

    A phone that is expensive, sucks, *and* pretentious. I thought I was going to have to go with a lame old Android phone, but man, there's hope for poseurs like me yet!

    1. Re:I think I just jizzed myself by outsider007 · · Score: 5, Funny

      And we've apparently found a new niche: Label-conscious serial public masturbators.

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  2. Don't forget the porn !!! by DrYak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and finally, a Jobs-approved way to get pron on your iPhone.
    (He *did* say to get Android !)

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  3. Yessiree! by itsdapead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple's low-cost hardware with its wide range of options and standard interfaces teamed up with Android's consistent, carefully designed user interface experience, dazzling speed and frugal memory use.

    Truly a marriage made in heaven.

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  4. Re:call me when apple approves it by rwa2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For all of their "think different" ads, Apple is a very traditional vertically-integrated engineering firm... like the old "big iron" unixes: Cray, SGI, SUN, IBM, where they sold the entire platform: hardware, software, custom interfaces, etc.

    For all the Microsoft-bashing we do around here, they were really the ones that separated hardware from software on the PC (and then Linux came around and offered the even more of the same).

    But now we have vertically integrated smartphones again. And for all the Google vs. Microsoft that we do, Android is pretty much Google's effort at doing to the smartphone what Microsoft did to the PC.

    So don't take your freedom of hardware abstraction for granted! But in the end, we pretty much know how this dance should turn out.... just look at what Cray, SGI, SUN, IBM are doing now :-P

    Apple will probably always be Apple (at least as long as Steve Jobs is around). Because he doesn't make products for us geeks, but for the rest of the people. He know his market well. And it is not us. So get over it and let the people have their stripped-down straightjacket internet devices.