<div dir="ltr">> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I am lucky that Hulu still plays on Linux.</span><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">FYI, Amazon Prime also plays on Linux. </span></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Chuck Payne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:terrorpup@gmail.com" target="_blank">terrorpup@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Richard,<br>
<br>
<rant><br>
<br>
I just when thur a nightmare with cheap tablets. Last year, we bought<br>
my son a tablet for his birthday. Some tablet that was blue and white<br>
and said it was design for Kids. Problem was it didn't work with<br>
Google Store, so he was limited on games and apps. I was a bit upset<br>
as I spent $130 for this tablet. So we took back to Tiger Direct,<br>
before I could finish explaining why we were return, they exchange is<br>
for Archos 7", that was 512GB and 8Gigs of storage and worked with<br>
Google Play. We were back at the store when in two weeks because the<br>
tab has broke where you plugged in to change it. Luck they replace it.<br>
<br>
We used this for about 5 month before it has a weird issue with<br>
charging and not coming on. I called the company they said it was<br>
cover, first thing was to send me a new power charger. When I got the<br>
charger, it was different from the one that came with it. Still didn't<br>
work. So I had to get an RMA. Took a month and I had to pay $10 to<br>
ship it back. Their website state that a RMA takes 10 to 15 days for<br>
them to repair them and send them back. After 20 days, and my son<br>
have a mental break down, because to an 8 year anything more than 15<br>
days is life time. I started calling, only to find out, that a repair<br>
is this; they get the tablet, they wait for a shipment of new ones and<br>
send you replacement. WOW, talk about un-green. Well, that 7" tablet<br>
was either a model they were no longer making or they has so many<br>
return that they were still waiting for a replace.<br>
<br>
After 30 Business Days and call every day for three weeks after 15 BD.<br>
I got a manager to say, we will upgrade your son to an 8" tablet.<br>
Sorry for the delay.<br>
<br>
With the time I spend on that replacement I could have bought iPad 2.<br>
Again, Cheap is Cheap. You get what you pay for.<br>
<br>
I understand that were we are going with PC. I think it SUCKS! I will<br>
keep a desktop, if I have to build it myself. Cheap Tablet are just<br>
that. Cheap. I have seen talk about people recommend ones. My<br>
recommendation is to teach your kids to use PC. Or you have that much<br>
disposal income to buy a tablet every time you turn around, go ahead<br>
buy a cheap tablet.<br>
<br>
I do have a tablet. I have an Asus TF101 with keyboard, but I paid<br>
$350 for it, guess what it works and I can tell it build to last. I<br>
heard a lot of other people complain about the fast that many of these<br>
cheap tablets are running Android 2.3 and have their own app store.<br>
<br>
I love linux, but seems lately with the smart phones and tablets we<br>
are stepping back on the desktop.<br>
<br>
</rant><br>
<br>
Sorry, for the rant. I friend gave me Dell that I install linux on,<br>
load it with all kinds of cool games, gave to my son, and when it<br>
couldn't play cartoon network or club penguin it was like gave my son<br>
a C64.<br>
<br>
That why I was wondering, why has one jump on this. If you could port<br>
the apps to linux, there is a good business plan. I would paid to be<br>
able to download an app for CN or Netflix to watch movies.<br>
<br>
I am lucky that Hulu still plays on Linux.<br>
<br>
By the way, from what I know, it might have change, but Netflix is<br>
using FreeBSD for their streaming servers. I know one of the<br>
developers who left Netflix to Yahoo!.<br>
<br>
Thanks guys. I might look at the Google DSK to see I could get a VM<br>
running to do what I am talking about . I know mac has something<br>
called BlueStack, maybe there something like that.<br>
<br>
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Richard Bronosky <<a href="mailto:richard@bronosky.com">richard@bronosky.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Android couldn't be anymore different from a vanilla Linux distro and<br>
> still be called Linux based. The only thing it really shares with<br>
> Linux is the kernel.<br>
><br>
> I can't speak to whether it would be easy for companies that make<br>
> Android apps to port them to Linux. The level of difficulty would vary<br>
> with every app. What more important is ROI potential. Right now a<br>
> company's market is a much larger with Android than Linux. That is why<br>
> you see Android apps with no Linux counterpart. Part of it is also the<br>
> challenges of distribution, installation, and support.<br>
><br>
> .!# RichardBronosky #!.<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Jay Lozier <<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Good question. How different is Android from a vanilla Linux distro? I know<br>
>> Android use a Google JVM (Dalvik?). Are most apps written in Java/Scala? If<br>
>> they are, I would think porting would be relatively straightforward (I may<br>
>> be showing my ignorance).<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:44:12 -0400, Chuck Payne <<a href="mailto:terrorpup@gmail.com">terrorpup@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Riddle me this, why is that apps for android, which we all know is<br>
>>> Linux can play netflix, rebox, and other video feed, but Linux can't?<br>
>>> I am shocked with the number android apps that are there out there,<br>
>>> that no one has though of create an app like crossover for android to<br>
>>> Linux. It should be easy enough.<br>
>>><br>
>>> With Flash dead for Linux, a lot of site that use it are now only a<br>
>>> later version, thus making Linux hard to view them, but these same<br>
>>> site have apps that work on android.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Am I wrong to think, most apps for android, are nothing but web apps<br>
>>> any that that just have a nice interface that points to a url?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Yes, I understand that android is written for Arm Processors, but you<br>
>>> think it would be easy to re-compile them for Linux.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Just something I been wondering about as I have to create a windows<br>
>>> virt for my son to use club penguin and cartoon network, when cartoon<br>
>>> network app on android does the same thing on web, but only makes it<br>
>>> easier to spoon feed the masses.<br>
>>><br>
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