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The ONE GUY in this thread who gets it. Consumers want to go online. They want to browse the web. Watch youtube. Go to facebook. Check their G-Mail.
Thats about it.
Everyone else in this thread is like responding from the perspective of "Will Android as a desktop OS work FOR YOU?"
And that's not what's being asked here. What's being asked is if this would work for the masses.
In the 1940s, Japan underestimated the USA. They sent spies to look at Pearl Harbor months before the attack. They reported home with real accurate information. Their mistake was NOT intel gathering. They had the right correct information.
The mistake was thinking that USA used their navy vessles in the same way Japan did. Japan ran small efficient crews. Fast, efficient, stealthy. But small.
So when Japan got their intel on how the USA was operating they estimated the number of navy forces based on real data, but estimated the number of human forces based on their own policy. They miscalculated how many navymen were in service by 800%.
So they made the same mistake people in this thread are doing. Assuming others would apply the same line of thinking and way of doing something that they would.
When in reality, there are 8 billion different individual people on this planet right now. And with that comes 8 billion different ways to think.
Most people won't pass over an Android OS just because the file structure or privacy settings aren't to YOUR liking.