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[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 12/12/2015 01:13 AM, Joakim wrote:
>
> Desktop Android's certainly not there yet for everybody, but it is for
> my admittedly low demands, and soon will be for everybody, as google has
> said they're working on built-in multi-window for the next version of
> Android.

Personally, I would need far more than just multi-window support for 
Android to be a worthwhile desktop OS for me. A lot of the issues 
(though not nearly all) relate to software ecosystem.

For example, I can't even find a halfway decent alternative to windows 
notepad, let alone any better text editor. Basic undo/redo support is 
rare in Android software, as is saving/loading actual files and sharing 
user files between different programs on the same machine, which is 
something desktops had pretty much sorted out decades ago.

The whole backup/restore situation is a mess (there's an article that 
explains my issues with it better than I can, but my link to it is 
buried somewhere ATM), PalmOS already had backup/restore sorted out much 
better over a decade ago. Heck, even same with iOS if you can tolerate 
iTunes and, well, Apple/iOS.

That's just a few off-the-top-of-my-head examples. There's many others, 
like the bluetooth keyboard lag/unresponsiveness that you've already 
mentioned, and I can confirm from experience.