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To: VanDeKoik
Android doesn’t run on laptops or desktops.

Really?

Check out the Samsung Ativ Q. Intel Core i5. 3200x1800 13-inch display. 4gb RAM. 128gb SSD. Convertible between tablet and laptop form.

Also convertible between Windows 8 and Android Jelly Bean. Writes Matt Baxter-Reynolds on ZDNet:

This is a Windows 8 hybrid that also runs Android. Double-tap the physical Start button on the device and a full-on copy of Jelly Bean pops into view.

Imagine if you will trying to break this news to Steve Ballmer without causing him to spontaneously combust. One of his key OEM partners -- a company that has a degree of success at shipping Android devices that from some angles it looks like Google did Android as a personal favour to Samsung's accountants -- turns round and says, "we're not so sure about this New Windows vision of yours, we're going to give our customers Android".

The only safe way to do that is to escort Steve to a soundproof bunker deep on campus, fill it full of two-to-three-hundred especially cute kittens and bunnies and spend a week or so breaking the news to him gently.


59 posted on 07/17/2013 2:02:51 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

“Imagine if you will trying to break this news to Steve Ballmer without causing him to spontaneously combust. “

Amazing how juvenile this has become.

It seems like the only people exploding are those desperate to try to knock off Windows for the past 20 years.

Why would he “explode”? The thing runs a copy of Windows that had to be paid for, while the copy of Android made Google zero dollars.


60 posted on 07/17/2013 2:08:54 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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