[SGVLUG] Android on the HP Touchpad

[Braydon]

On 08/29/2011 11:44 AM, matti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am guessing HP wanted to not follow google's lead.
Clearly they are missing the point, because there is an entirely free 
distribution of Android available targeted at the Freerunner, and as far 
as I can tell ( http://code.google.com/p/android-on-freerunner/) and 
doesn't include any proprietary portions. So they could have very well 
started there and went into a slightly different direction without 
Google's lead.

As a web developer though, more seemlessness between mobile and the web 
would be a big win, since it would mean more easily developing mobile 
applications, and there are a lot more JavaScript developers than Java 
developers, even if JavaScript is a bit quirky syntactically. 
CoffeeScript does make things more better for writing larger scale more 
maintainable scripts with JavaScript.