These are Ericsson people [LWN.net]

These are Ericsson people

Posted Aug 24, 2012 8:10 UTC (Fri) by job (guest, #670)
In reply to: Sony opens up the Dynamic Android Sensor HAL (DASH) by sjj
Parent article: Sony opens up the Dynamic Android Sensor HAL (DASH)

This is not Sony. This is Ericsson, which has always had a solid engineering culture inside the company. The mobile phone group just happened to be recently sold to Sony.

But make no mistakes. These guys are not Sony in any more than name. My personal guess however, is that they won't survive long with their now overlords as they recently started layoffs and reorganizing.

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These are Ericsson people

Posted Aug 24, 2012 9:20 UTC (Fri) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link]

The phone division has been more and more keen on open the further they moved away from Ericsson. The announcement around ASOPing Sony phones is a post-buyout move, and the decision to provide newer versions of Android for their 2011 phones was made after the buyout was mooted.

If anything, the evidence suggests Ericsson gave the mobiles the classic telco "fuck you, customer" culture that saw the 2010 Xperias launch with an outdated version of Android, grudgingly upgrade to 2.1, and refuse to provide anything beyond that.