"... what we need to avoid like the plague."

Yes. See also "The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing" by
Cory Doctorow

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html


On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Casey Ransberger
<casey.obrien.r at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't get online much these days, so I felt kind of lucky to catch this
> thread.
>
> My two cents: aim at devices which ship with the cleanest (read: less
> vendor crapware preinstalled) and make *absolutely certain* that the device
> supports consumer side loading of apps (read: you're allowed to install the
> VM.)
>
> I've heard that in spite of being Android based, Kindle Fire does not
> allow loading apps from Google's app store, much less side loading; you
> have to get all apps from Amazon's store. This is the one of the problems
> we encounter with iOS, and what we need to avoid like the plague.
>
> That and we have to find some decent tablet hardware which meets the above
> criteria. Android isn't really a requirement, I'm going to throw out
> another post with an idea about that in a minute.
>
>
> Casey
>
> On Nov 9, 2012, at 1:19 AM, David Corking <lists at dcorking.com> wrote:
>
> > Great, thanks Chris. I guess these are the kind of trade sample
> > devices that Tim cited on Wednesday:
> >
> >
> http://armdevices.net/2012/11/05/wabook-arm-powered-laptops-71-10-1-1024x600-51-7-800x480/
> >
> http://armdevices.net/2012/10/29/overview-of-the-latestbest-7-tablets-out-of-shenzhen-china/
> > http://armdevices.net/members-store/
> >
> > For better or worse, it sounds like the trade is plumping for Android
> > over the Debian Linux of the Raspberry Pi. Does Android need a
> > 'jailbreak' to run Squeak?
> >
> > Thanks for the inspiration. David
> >
> > p.s. It sounds like I might spend on a new jacket to go with a new
> > toy. I gave up jackets over a decade ago.
> >
>
>


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