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		yjftsjthsd-h on Jan 16, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was lau... Actually that's an interesting question; why didn't Android use X11? A few minutes of web searching don't seem to turn up anybody commenting on it; do you happen to know how I would check what their reasons were?

calvinmorrison on Jan 16, 2025 [–]

probably because it's to complex. I think the earliest android demos were probably just writing to the framebuffer.

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