Will We see Android Netbooks?

It recently came out that google’s cell phone platform, Android, was up and running (unofficially) on an ASUS eeePC successfully. This has certainly led to further speculation that we might be seeing Android becoming more common, and more official, on netbooks. While Windows has still proven to be more successful on Netbooks over Linux, getting the backing of a name like Google could prove to help push the open source platform more into the spotlight.

As for my thoughts? I’m pretty ambivalent for now. I don’t have any real experience with Android outside of fiddling with the SDK (although I hope to pick up a G1 in the near future), which isn’t really enough to show me how it really functions. I wouldn’t be surprised if it could translate to a small, portable computer pretty easily with a few tweaks. Personally, I have a hard time imagining I would favor it over an actual Linux distribution, but for the public at large, it could prove to be a good plan. Hard to say.