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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:23:45PM -0400, Mike Shaver wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Rob Campbell <rcampb...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > Why Android and not a PC to start with? Would it be easier? Fewer moving parts, fewer device unknowns? Is a PC-level device on the table as well?
> 
> We might prototype some stuff on a PC, but the project is really about
> the device space.  We had to pick somewhere, and this seems like where
> the energy is best spent.
> 
> Desktop devices tend to be harder to get good open drivers for without
> pulling in things like X, which we don't want to do.

Don't worry, mobile devices are not better for good open drivers, with
or without X. And you get additional fun from the lack of standards
on the hardware side...

Mike