As things seem to shape up right now, meaning Verizon/Motorola launching 2.0 and a new device cold, best we can do is to stay on our toes and uncheck "Verizon" on the Android Market console when time arrives.
On Oct 26, 9:04 am, Peter Jeffe <[email protected]> wrote: > The recent experience with the 1.6 release underscores the need for > Google to take a different approach to future releases. No matter how > hard you try to make an OS backward-compatible, or an application > forward-compatible, there will always be breaking changes in an OS > release. That is why OS vendors typically give developers a good > amount of time to test on upcoming releases before they're made > generally available. > > It's pretty clear that Android has reached the stage of maturity where > Google needs to treat it more like Sun, IBM, Microsoft et al treat > their OSes and less like a freewheeling community development effort. > Allowing developers two weeks to test on a release candidate before it > goes GA is, to say the least, inadequate. Google should establish an > orderly release process, drawing on the decades of experience of other > OS vendors, that provides developers with the necessary time to ensure > that their applications work on the new OS level the first day that > it's released. > > In addition, there needs to be a way for developers to have different > versions of an application available in the Market for different > versions of the OS. The good news is that we're seeing a marked > increase in the use of Android on various devices by numerous > vendors. The bad news is that this ensures that there will be an > increasing diversity of OS versions being used at any given time. > Developers need to be able to take advantage of features in newer OS > levels without shutting out all the users who are not yet on those > levels (and may never be). This shouldn't be a big change to the > Market, but it's an absolutely necessary one. > > It's crystal-clear to me that the Android release process needs to > change. I know that a fast-moving mobile OS is different from a > workstation or desktop OS, but there are many ways in which they are > the same, and the need to support developers in these two areas is one > of them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
