My question is, will it be a real VM or a container? They are both Linux, so it could potentially work. Anyways, I really like the idea of my phone also being my laptop that I can just plug a keyboard into, and not some big screen phone apps with a semblance of desktop layout.
This graphic shows that the platform is designed with full virtualization in mind. You can see that the VM on the right has its own kernel (unlike for example docker containers).
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I canβt believe theyβre at all worried about Linux on phones yet, not with the state mobile Linux is in at the moment. Itβs improving, but UX improvements on Linux tend to move at a glacial pace. I think desktop Linux has mostly caught up such that laptops can be sold to the general public and not be a complete disaster, but itβs taken, what, three decades?
So I have to wonder: why?
They might be concerned about future competition with a looming potential breakup of the company by the US DOJ (not that it would necessarily weaken Android itself but it seems plausible). But it could also just be because one of the devs wanted to do it, which is pretty typical with Google (for better and for worse).
So does this all lead up to Android becoming the new ChromeOS? Newer builds of Android certainly make it seem so
Is Google fighting itself? Seems like the Android dev team is almost literally indirectly addressing the issues that the Chromium and App Store dev teams just created.
