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Title: Breakthrough: The Nintendo Switch can now run on Android
Post by: Redaktion on July 28, 2019, 13:28:46
The Nintendo Switch has been extremely receptive to mods so far and the good folks over at XDA-Developers have taken things up a notch with a new release that allows Switch users to flash an Android 8.1 ROM on their consoles.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Breakthrough-The-Nintendo-Switch-can-now-run-on-Android.428300.0.html
Title: Re: Breakthrough: The Nintendo Switch can now run on Android
Post by: Jose on July 28, 2019, 16:46:35
Isn't the title backwards? It's "Android can run on the switch" or "the switch can run Android"
Title: Re: Breakthrough: The Nintendo Switch can now run on Android
Post by: Ricci Rox on July 28, 2019, 16:52:23
Quote from: Jose on July 28, 2019, 16:46:35
Isn't the title backwards? It's "Android can run on the switch" or "the switch can run Android"

You know what? You're absolutely right. Oh well.
Title: Re: Breakthrough: The Nintendo Switch can now run on Android
Post by: kevin feltes on July 28, 2019, 23:16:18
"Oh Well".  What a response. That you got this basic fact backwards (and more than once in your story) is abysmal reporting.
Title: Re: Breakthrough: The Nintendo Switch can now run on Android
Post by: Marc Barrett on July 29, 2019, 01:25:54
I was about to point out the same thing. The headline is backwards, and apparently the writer does not care. I weep for the death of basic editing in the world of internet news today.
Title: Re: Breakthrough: The Nintendo Switch can now run on Android
Post by: Jason Smith on July 29, 2019, 03:02:17
I think the author meant "run on Android" as in "run using", as in "my body runs on cheese".
Title: Re: Breakthrough: The Nintendo Switch can now run on Android
Post by: RastaJedi on July 30, 2019, 11:15:23
This is exactly what I was coming to the comments to write. I was going to say it should be 'Android running on Switch'... or 'Switch running Android'.
Title: Re: Breakthrough: The Nintendo Switch can now run on Android
Post by: Ricci Rox on July 31, 2019, 11:42:08
Quote from: kevin feltes on July 28, 2019, 23:16:18
"Oh Well".  What a response. That you got this basic fact backwards (and more than once in your story) is abysmal reporting.
Author here. Note that the headline, as it was, was NOT technically incorrect. There are numerous instances in which hardware has been said to "run on" software.

I could easily say "So-and-so phone runs on Android Pie", and I wouldn't be wrong.

Not technically incorrect, yes, but perhaps colloquially off-putting. And that's why the headline has been edited.

Cheers!