The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel.
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Android was intended to be very customizable. And we welcome innovations.
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.
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 was built to be very, very secure.
To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.
I don't think anyone is going to say great things about being a native developer on Android.
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.
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world.
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.