Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.
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Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel.
Android is one of the most open systems I've ever seen. What makes Android great is it's literally designed from the ground up to be customised in a very powerful way.
It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution - that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world.
The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel.
Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.
I don't think anyone is going to say great things about being a native developer on Android.
We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.
There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.
Obviously, you will always see more malware targeting Android because Android is used more than any smartphone platform by a pretty substantial difference.
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
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