Another step toward tech independence for China – on the day Tim Cook came to town
  • @[email protected]English
    7•7 hours ago

    Samsung couldn’t do it with tizen and now Huawei thinks they’re better? It’ll be another epic failure.

    • Alphane MoonOPEnglish
      6•7 hours ago

      But they have the benefit of Chinese state support and a massive captive market (with revanchist, imperialist tendencies).

      • Avid AmoebaEnglish
        2•6 hours ago

        Exactly. The path for success is clear as there’s clear need and public investment to back it up.

  • @breadsmasherEnglish
    11•10 hours ago

    That’s a nice number, but well short of the millions of apps found on the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store.

    Millions of apps on these stores are also complete garbage

    • umami_wasabiEnglish
      3•8 hours ago

      I afraid not too soon there will be WhatsApp repackage version with backdoors included.

    • sunzu2
      2•7 hours ago

      Da faq?

      How are they porting apps onto a new kernel?

      • Avid AmoebaEnglish
        8•6 hours ago

        Apps typically don’t interact with the kernel. They interact with a C library like glibc, bionic or musl. So long as the kernel has a POSIX interface you should be able to compile the same app on different kernels. We do this with apps that run on Linux, BSD and QNX for example.

        As for Android apps, you could extend that to running the Android runtime on top of different kernels. We did that with the Android runtime on QNX for BlackBerry 10 and we did it in a way that didn’t even require recompilation. That said Wiki says they don’t support Android apps. So if you meant Android apps they simply don’t.

        • sunzu2
          2•7 hours ago

          steam proton route lol

          i guess hardware is good enough where emulation layer is not longer seen a hindrance.

          it is easier to just write one layer then re write 20 years of software.