http://liliputing.com/2013/08/gateway-android-all-in-one-pc-with-android-hits... Acer/Gateway is importing the first
Android OS all in one computer.
Obviously, as part of the Google vendor group they know something we don't know yet. But they and Dell and HP all know the same thing whatever it is -- as all three companies are preparing HUGE 21" to 24" Android OS flatscreen devices (now going through the FCC approvals) that all will hit in Q4 of this year to Q1 of next year -- and after the advent of the next Android OS system bump perhaps ???
Will this be Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie? Or will it be Chrome OS #30? Or will it be whatever they are going to call the conjoined system once they blend them together into one seamless, convergent system?
Makes you sorta wonder, don't it?
Microsoft would be having kittens in the break room right about now, if they could find either the break room or their kittens .....
(both were mislaid during the recent restructuring, I am afraid)
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If "whatever this is" really takes off good -- then every TV made will have it "built in" within a half of a year.
Remember, many TVs already come net ready right now, just using custom android interfaces that likely can run "whatever this is" once it comes out of the closet.
And then the age of the PC comes to a close as your phone and your tablet and your TV/bigscreen PC all will use a convergent software called "whatever it is". And you can Chromecast whatever to whichever at will using your dongle (if you don't have a brand new state of the art TV, that is).
And Ballmer weeps & gnashes his teeth and sues somebody over something, as does Apple.
Mainly because what else CAN they do? When paradigm shift occurs you are either inside the new paradigm or you are left helplessly in the dust behind the change curve ....
Ask Kodak about them digital cameras for example. Or ask an old vacuum tube company how they are doing. Or a cathode ray tube monitor company.
Remember,
all of the rapidly expanding NEW Oriental, Middle Eastern, Indochina, and South American market's customers all think Android really IS an operating system already, and
they like it just fine because it is all they have ever used ....