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		petecox on Nov 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux on Dex That's a Chrome OS device. So what is preventing OEMs from releasing a Chrome OS phone which runs both Android apps and desktop Linux apps out of the box without this Dex/Canonical vendor-specific solution?

snazz on Nov 8, 2018 [–]

As far as I know, the compatibility layer for running Android apps on Chrome OS is closed-source, which means that any OEM wanting to do this would need Google’s blessing and access to their source code. However, if there were a phone that did this, I’d buy it for sure.

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