The same goes for Google and its Android platform. It could be argued that dual-boot devices are just too confusing for the average customer and that might be right at some level. But more advanced users will be certainly missing out.
Nevertheless, all is not lost in the dual-boot wonderland. Yesterday I was telling you that Chinese manufacturer Ramos was still moving along as planned, heading towards its scheduled March 20 event in Beijing to be held at the Jing Park Art Center, where it will apparently pull the veil off its dual-boot i10 Pro tablet.
How does this reconcile with recent information I don’t know, so I guess we’ll have to wait and see until the above-mentioned date to see what happens, but my feeling is that Ramos won’t be launching the device and they will come up with an excuse.
However, the fact that we will most likely not see Android-Windows 8.1 tablets shouldn’t discourage us from thinking beyond. For example, Ubuntu Linux developer Canonical is working on software that will allow users to dual-boot Ubuntu and Android.
Paradoxically, rumor has it that some companies are gearing up to release dual-boot Android and Windows Phone smartphones and apparently, Microsoft doesn’t have a problem with that. Nor does Google. The truth is certainly somewhere out there.
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