Android-Based Remix OS To Be Discontinued, Jide To Focus On The Enterprise

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Android-Based Remix OS To Be Discontinued, Jide To Focus On The Enterprise

Remix OS, the Android-x86 derived operating system for x86/ARM to run Android applications on PCs, is now being discontinued in its current form...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Remix-OS-Android

[libv]

So this is what a 1.7m usd kickstarter buys the starry-eyed kickstarters? "F-u all, we are going enterprise only". Are we learning yet?

Heh, just saw another kickstarter that brought them 600k in revenue. 2.3m usd of crowdfunding cash well spent guys.

[andyprough]

So this is what a 1.7m usd kickstarter buys the starry-eyed kickstarters? "F-u all, we are going enterprise only". Are we learning yet?

Heh, just saw another kickstarter that brought them 600k in revenue. 2.3m usd of crowdfunding cash well spent guys.

Well - if they have the money to refund it all, then they are basically living the American IT dream: blow smoke at a lot of people and take their money until some big corporation buys you out.

[LoveRPi]

They had a ton of engineers in Beijing and there was no way the business model could sustain the heavy investment. Remix IO's choice of using Rockchip 3368 and 3399 were unwise since they used different GPUs and did not have an Android 7.1 BSP.

[jKicker]

Well if you ever actually tied to get a business going this is expected. "Enterprises" will pay big money for something they could have done in a more cheap way but they want support and someone to blame actually. No need to reinvent everything by yourself.
Customers on the other hand want to pay as little as possible.
If you can sell your products to other companies you are in a much better position. Especially since you avoid whiny customers...like people who comment here...regular folks are the worst, you can't please those

[Jumbotron]

It didn't help that Intel ceded the entire mobile market to ARM. They discontinued their Atom line of CPUs for phones and tablets and just recently discontinued their Edison and Quark line of CPUs for things like IoT and Raspberry Pi. So Android on x86 is a shrinking market. Not sure how these changes are effecting emulators such as BlueStacks.

[Nille]

I'm not sad about it. Android x86 and RemixOS never worked on my Systems.

[nomadewolf]

It didn't help that Intel ceded the entire mobile market to ARM. They discontinued their Atom line of CPUs for phones and tablets and just recently discontinued their Edison and Quark line of CPUs for things like IoT and Raspberry Pi. So Android on x86 is a shrinking market. Not sure how these changes are effecting emulators such as BlueStacks.

Android on x86 is no market at all, so it can't shrink. Unfortunately.
For one, i think that RemixOS's concept was cool. It was Android and we were able to run Android apps natively, and it was also Linux, and we had a usable interface... If only it'd work...

I find it strange that the timing seems to conicide (a bit) with Samsung's Galaxy 8 which has a similar feature...

[starshipeleven]

So this is what a 1.7m usd kickstarter buys the starry-eyed kickstarters? "F-u all, we are going enterprise only". Are we learning yet?

Heh, just saw another kickstarter that brought them 600k in revenue. 2.3m usd of crowdfunding cash well spent guys.

You're just envious, admit it.

[droidhacker]

It was obvious from the first minute that they'd go away. All they did was throw a slightly customized systemui on top of android x86. And the sad thing is that it didn't even do something that you couldn't manage with AOSP directly. Combine that with the fact that they hid their basically non-existent sources, and it means that nobody will be interested in it and its going nowhere.