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End of the Line For Remix OS as Jide Shifts Its Energy Towards the Enterprise (neowin.net)
An anonymous reader shares a report: It was only in July last year that Remix OS, an Android-based operating system for PCs, was bumped up to Version 3.0, which featured Android 6.0 Marshmallow under the hood. In fact, news of the upgrade came hot on the heels of an announcement from Chuwi with regards to the release of its $239 Vi10 Plus tablet that dual-booted Remix OS and Windows 10. A little over a month later, Jide Technology then followed up with a "developer preview" of the OS leveraging Android 7.0 Nougat. However, after a somewhat brief period of existence of just a few years, the company has announced that it is shifting its focus away from the consumer segment to the enterprise. In a statement on its website, Jide stated that: "Over the past year, we received an increasing number of inquiries from enterprises in various industries, and began helping them build great tools for their organizations by leveraging Jide software and hardware. We see huge potential in the role that Jide can play to revolutionize how these businesses operate. And given our existing resources, we decided to focus our company efforts solely on the enterprise space moving forward."
Honestly I think the future of android on the desktop is a containerized runtime like Anbox https://anbox.io/
I haven't tried PhoenixOS yet. They've brought out Android 7 Nougat since I last browsed their site.
I wonder what will rise from the ashes of Remix?
Question: if the GPL "viral" or "cancerous", what do you call this, this son-of-Apache closed source freeware license that Jibe used for Remix OS ?
The "viral" nature referred to the need to release source code so it would be "non-contagious". If you want a better genetics-style analogy they're like a ship that left Open Source Island, settled on their own Proprietary Island and went extinct so whatever unique traits they had became dust. Other Proprietary Islands like macOS still thrive, but they only allow a few carefully selected people to return to Open Source Island. The Free Software Islands is like a federation, they'll let you travel to any island for what you seek as long as others can travel to your island for what they seek. And the inhabitants of Open Source Island are pissed because people from the Free Software Islands cherry pick people from Open Source Island, but they can't bring anyone back because they don't want to join the Free Software Islands. So far it's the Holy War with least bloodshed in history though.
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Particularly w/ ChromeOS being rigged to be able to run apps available on Google Play. Better focus would be making more fully featured Chromebooks: not all of them have to be barebones netbooks based on Atoms & w/ 1GB RAM and 4GB storage.
so we're going to try to fool some ignorant corporate executives next.
come on, they *could have* pursued that while also having a product for lowly end users.. but there's no big pay day in that plan.