l3g0la5 writes:
"Nokia may have tried to steer clear of Android look and feel with its redesign Windows tile-like interface in Nokia X, but it was always a question of when and not if hackers would tinker around to root the device to run native Android apps. That time has come within a matter of days as an XDA-developers member has managed to hack his Nokia X to run Google Play and other apps."
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Monday March 03 2014, @06:54AM
TFA quote:
Does this mean: Nokia Development Team tried to get Android working on their phone, but failed... until, unexpectedly, Kashamalaga made some progress and let the NDT full of joy???
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @07:32AM
Not at all. The X is already running Android. But it took a few days to root it and install the Google Play store.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Koen on Monday March 03 2014, @08:35AM
What about (just guessing, I have no insider information): the devs wanted a fully functionally device, but higher management said to the devs that they had to disable the apps. The higher management, not wanting any bad publicity, can only be sportsmanlike about it. Now the devs are happy that the apps work and they are not to blame - plus they can say "we told you so" to management.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by bornagainpenguin on Monday March 03 2014, @09:33AM
More than that, what do you want to bet that the developers told management it would be pointless to even try to lock the Play Store out of the phone and it was (as we've now seen) only a matter of time before someone added back the standard Android apps and etc...?
(Score: 2) by Koen on Monday March 03 2014, @09:52AM
Well, that's why I ended with the "we told you so" line...
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Alphatool on Monday March 03 2014, @10:42AM
Of course it doesn't mean that Nokia couldn't do it - just that Nokia management chose not to. Whether or not that was a good idea is still an open question, but I'm struggling to see why you would choose a Nokia X series phone when you can get a full blown android + Google phone with similar specs for the same price. I guess time will tell.
(Score: 1) by slater86 on Monday March 03 2014, @07:48PM
I'm pretty certain there would have been no technical issues involved.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by prospectacle on Monday March 03 2014, @07:44AM
So the Android runtime is realising the dream of Java. Hopefully it's headed the way of the web-browser, in that it will soon exist on all platforms, for free, being developed by multiple vendors, who compete on performance and reliability.
Then, as Microsoft failed to control the web, despite all apparent advantages (like owning 95% of the market, and having proprietary extensions to lock people in), so will Google fail to control Android, and for the same reasons. Anyone can copy and port the platform, and enough people want to.
If a plan isn't flexible it isn't realistic