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Google talks up Android: open ecosystems lead to innovation (ars technica)
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Google talks up Android: open ecosystems lead to innovation (ars technica)
Posted Apr 15, 2008 16:41 UTC (Tue) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]
My understanding is that they also want to wait to make sure the first phones are properly QA'ed. It would hurt the brand and image if some cheap knockoff manufacturer shipped a phone with the current system, which as he says still has lots of bugs to be worked out.
Google talks up Android: open ecosystems lead to innovation (ars technica)
Posted Apr 15, 2008 18:18 UTC (Tue) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]
Speaking of which, I just noticed that openmoko has published all their CAD files in CreativeCommons Sharealike! http://openmoko.com Very cool! I think openmoko is planning to be compatible with android, although I don't fully understand what that means.
Google talks up Android: open ecosystems lead to innovation (ars technica)
Posted Apr 15, 2008 21:38 UTC (Tue) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link]
Also, they've announced they are just about ready to start selling the new phone for $399. http://www.intomobile.com/2008/04/14/openmoko-freerunner-...
Google talks up Android: open ecosystems lead to innovation (ars technica)
Posted Apr 16, 2008 5:55 UTC (Wed) by lacostej (guest, #2760) [Link]
I don't buy the high rate of code churn. The git public repo shows probably less than 200 patches since the middle of February. that's 3 patches per day. For the patches to be merged later on, they should make sure the code is properly written as they go. Before they fully stabilize the platform.
Google talks up Android: open ecosystems lead to innovation (ars technica)
Posted Apr 17, 2008 10:19 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]
I see Android's licensing has not been clarified still.
Google talks up Android: open ecosystems lead to innovation (ars technica)
Posted Apr 20, 2008 16:22 UTC (Sun) by robilad (subscriber, #27163) [Link]
"Although the kernel and much of the platform source code are available from a public git repository, there are still some parts of the stack that haven't been fully opened yet." Unless "much of the platform source code" means "NO platform source code at all", that's wrong. git.android.com hosts just the kernel trees so far.