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Console Inc. (commonly known as Console) is an American technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, that focuses on high-performance Android platform design. It is best known for its Console OS Kickstarter campaign, a project intended on developing a native Android distribution for the PC. Console, Inc. was originally titled Mobile Media Ventures, Inc. In mid-2015 the company announced its intention to do business as Console, Inc. going forward via a d/b/a name change.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mmv/console-os-dual-boot-android-remastered-for-the-pc/posts/1122571 )〕 The company has since exclusively referred to itself as Console, Inc. The company was founded by Christopher Price. It is a privately held startup. ==Console OS== Console OS is the first commercial distribution of the Android operating system, designed for traditional PC hardware. It debuted on Kickstarter in June, 2014. The funding campaign was successful, raising $78,497 from 5,695 backers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mmv/console-os-dual-boot-android-remastered-for-the-pc/ )〕 The distribution differs from open-source options such as Android-x86 by including commercial, closed-source drivers, codecs, and players. The Console OS platform, effectively, is the Intel Architecture equivalent to CyanogenMod. The company intends to open-source the platform, however noting that closed-source drivers will be included later this year. Console OS runs as a native operating system. Unlike alternative solutions for the PC, such as BlueStacks, it does not run Android in an emulator.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://consoleos.com/ )〕 This provides superior performance, particularly on lower-end systems - but with the disadvantage that the end-user must install the operating system, and cannot easily uninstall the software from inside the original operating system. While the company failed to deliver on its Kickstarter target, supporting most targeted systems, by the end of 2014, Console OS has struggled to deliver remaining system targets. The company blames the "Lollipop Logjam" and major system changes. Additionally, after the Kickstarter campaign ended - Intel discontinued support for Android on Intel Core processors, removing a key advantage to the system for 2-in-1 devices. Console claims most of these problems are temporary, and that it is on-track to deliver new Console OS releases with the latest Android later this year, in open-source (albeit with closed-source components such as drivers and apps). Console also claims to be working with Intel to return Android to Intel Core processors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mmv/console-os-dual-boot-android-remastered-for-the-pc/posts/1324604 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Console Inc.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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