Comments on: 5 Reasons Why Android May Take Half the Netbook Market

By: will-kill-for-exclusivity

will-kill-for-exclusivity — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:50:11 +0000

well.
i was overjoyed when i heard of the toshiba and acer netbooks powered by android, but it was a huge disappointment when i read in reviews that the android market is not supported.

May be the app developers can find a solution the “window way”. If the application does not require much interaction or “clicking” then they can show it on the screen in a small window, instead of optimizing it for the big screen.

I am no developer, but it is a just a concept so I don’t know the technical part but this seems to be the best compromise without killing the screen resolution as well as the hassle to optimize the app interface to fit the screen(I hope it is not)

By: Nick Eman

Nick Eman — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:30:32 +0000

I don’t think a touchscreen even makes sense on a 10 inch netbook….Why would anyone want to navigate a netbook by having to repeatedly hold their hand/arm in the air when they can just rest their arm/hand on a table, etc.

Now on a phone absolutely, phones are made to be controlled by touchscreen.

By: sirebral

sirebral — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:10:10 +0000

50%? That is a huge margin! I would vote that Android will have a healthy share of the market, but 50% is just way to big. Besides, I think the question is misleading. Could Android be an *option* to come preinstalled on 50% of new notebooks by 2012. Then I would taken more time to say Yes, probably.

By: eduardo

eduardo — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:41:38 +0000

Android is being ported to the Freescale ARM cpu netbooks that are coming out later this year. These netbooks will be considerably cheaper than ones based on the Intel Atom, and use only one-third as much power.

By: midnightsailor

midnightsailor — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:11:01 +0000

Great article! =)