Despite telling me yesterday it would take him “several days” to do it, I check into Twitter today and get this:
https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/252027541144092675
And here is the full-sized photo:
But wait, don’t get excited. He reports:
freezes there. Doesn’t ‘run’. Why do you expect such things?
Grrrrrrr!
And why is it like that? He also reports:
because this is how ports work! You spend hours/days/weeks getting it up to speed, fixing things piece by piece
From all the rooting and modding I’ve seen done with Android at XDA Developers, I’ve gotten the mistaken idea that porting would be just as “easy.”
It’s a hell of a lot of work!
So, it’ll take “several days” — if not much more — to get Open webOS to work on this tablet.
Still, better than what we’ve had — which has been nothing.
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