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Nokia X Hacked to Run Android Apps, Use Play Store

posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 03 2014, @04:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the It's-a-robot! dept.

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: 3, Interesting) by prospectacle on Monday March 03 2014, @07:44AM

    by prospectacle (3422) on Monday March 03 2014, @07:44AM (#9989) Journal

    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.

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