[ale] Riddle me this

Mon Jul 15 15:30:40 EDT 2013

My luck with cheap Android tablets has been very good.  I'm currently using
a D2 from one of the dollar stores. I believe I payed $70.  I mostly use it
as an ebook and web browser, and to watch insane old movies from the
internet archive, but it's worked without a hitch for the past year or so.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:

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