15 messages in com.googlegroups.android-discussRe: [android-discuss] Re: Android as ...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| erik...@gmail.com | 13 Feb 2008 15:31 | |
| Dan U. | 13 Feb 2008 16:34 | |
| erik...@gmail.com | 13 Feb 2008 16:41 | |
| Dan U. | 13 Feb 2008 17:05 | |
| erik...@gmail.com | 13 Feb 2008 17:40 | |
| Renato | 14 Feb 2008 09:20 | |
| erik...@gmail.com | 14 Feb 2008 11:49 | |
| Stone Mirror | 14 Feb 2008 12:15 | |
| Renato | 15 Feb 2008 05:35 | |
| Johnson Doe | 15 Feb 2008 08:21 | |
| Stone Mirror | 15 Feb 2008 08:59 | |
| Dan Morrill | 15 Feb 2008 11:48 | |
| Erik Engström | 15 Feb 2008 20:50 | |
| Renato | 18 Feb 2008 01:25 | |
| Naveen Krishnan | 18 Feb 2008 04:08 |
| Subject: | Re: [android-discuss] Re: Android as a platform - the competitiveness |
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| From: | Stone Mirror (ston...@gmail.com) |
| Date: | 02/14/2008 12:15:21 PM |
| List: | com.googlegroups.android-discuss |
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Renato <nazc...@googlemail.com> wrote:
The way I see this point is that eventually Android aims to converge the disparity that is out there in the mobile world. It tries to replicate the Windows success (i know it sounds horrible, but hey they have the greatest share on desktops) but on mobiles, by offering a platform that no single manufacturer can overcome.
How does introducing a whole pile of never-before-seen code, none of which can be looked at in detail before devices ship (in 2009...?), "converge the disparity that it out there in the mobile world"...? I can only see that it adds to the disparity and fragmentation by throwing something that's neither a standard-ish Java-based system nor a standard-ish Linux-based system into the mix. Where's the Android *system *community...? (Entirely inside Google, that's where.)
That's the reason behind the Open Handset Alliance: they signed a
contract to be nice to each other and cooperate. So if Android succeeds (and we are all part in making that happen) we as developers can be certain that our apps will run smoothly across manufacturers (just as Powerpoint runs the same in an HP/Toshiba/Dell PC).
Assuming that the code does get released as open source at some point in the future, it'll be under an Apache license (according to Google), which means that anyone will be able to take it and do whatever they like with it, without even being obligated to release their changes back to the community. So, you won't necessarily have any greater certainty of your apps running (smoothly or otherwise) on Android-based devices than you do of your Java app running on any device with a JVM.
Powerpoint runs the same on whatever Windows PC because Microsoft makes both Windows and Powerpoint. Neither of those are open source projects. Are you saying that Android is going to have to remain proprietary to be successful...? If not, I don't see how this analogy works.
The open source community is working on things like GTK+, Gstreamer, BlueZ, and other projects which have broad-based support. LiMo just showed 18 * phones*--not development boards--based on exactly these components, some of them already on the market, some coming out soon, sooner than there'll be Android phones, certainly. So, where's Android's advantage at this point?
I thought Google created the OHA because the existing initiatives (like LiMo) "weren't moving fast enough". What happened?
-- 鏡石