That article suggests that they're focusing almost exclusively on mobile internet devices - basically netbooks that don't flip open, not smartphones. Though yes, android could be used on an MID, it really would be strange to use it on a large device, and I wouldn't expect the partial loss of this market to be a particularly major hit against android. These intel MIDs are basically to be the same common i386 architecture (Atom CPU) as everybody's desktops, laptops, and netbooks, and if you really get fussy about it, Intel has a reputation for being pretty open regarding their hardware specifications, so porting android to this really won't be a big deal. In fact, if you really feel the need to, you could even run the android emulator on one of these devices.
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