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Re:Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used ope... by cat199 on Monday April 03, 2017 @04:15PM (#14026709)
Not sure about ARM/Windows vs ARM/Android, but I do know that unlike the PC, Android ARM phones at least do not have things like a standardized BIOS, standardized peripheral bus enumeration, low-level firmware to hardware interface etc, or at least not to the same level..

This is why things like SBSA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Base_System_Architectur...) were needed before ARM servers could even be talked about, and why things like Rasberry PI's are not directly compatible with BeagleBones, etc, at least for the low-level stuff..

Nothing to do with ARM itself; just lack of ARM standards.

This was similar in the early PC days and had similar headaches - compare the various CP/M machines with what became the 'standard' MS-DOS/IBM-PC 'platform'..

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Re:Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used ope... by overgryphon on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @11:24AM (#14042767)
PCs do not have a standardized BIOS. BIOS configuration options vary widely, and often mean different things between different BIOS vendors. UEFI is standardized but sometimes difficult to adopt.
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