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Re:Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company by clouddrover on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @10:15AM (#14445502)
But again, the difference is that it's full Windows 10 on ARM with x86 Win32 emulation. You can take your 32-bit Windows x86 software and run it with no changes needed if you want to. You don't have to buy into any new ecosystem because there is no new ecosystem.

Here's a demo video they released at the start of the year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_GlGglbu1U

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Re:Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company by Noctix on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @10:52AM (#14445767)
TBH, there is not much you can do on a phone of that size. There aren't many windows exclusive applications that you would want to use on a phone.

Also, it simply doesn't make sense when seen through a buisnessman's perspective.

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Re:Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company by clouddrover on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:11AM (#14445896)
The x86 desktop application support is for the desktop use case. For a phone you'd plug it into a dock and use it as a desktop or into a laptop shell and use it like a laptop. Like this for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNzatcI9Fqw
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Re:Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company by justbaker on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:39PM (#14450275)
But I don't want to?
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Re:Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company by clouddrover on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:55PM (#14450319)
Then it's not for you. But it is for me, it is for the company I work at, and it is for many companies like it. This capability will be huge.
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