As a technology Android is a marginal improvement over say a full CDC platform; the real excitement, at least for me personally, was that individual developers could move in and change the industry because they would finally be able to enter and push ideas before the platform was mature and before all the big players began layering the existing mobile ecosystem over Android.
The sad part is that by the time Android developers get the SDK and can finally enter the fray, it will be too late. All the big players will have slithered their tentacles through every nook and cranny, leaving the individual developer gazing onwards, hands grasping into the empty air. Nokia has a good developer focus and I know has even been at odds with carriers over this at times. Symbian also has a predominant, established position in the market. I'm hoping that they and the other handset manufacturers can get a UI framework that rivals Android so that we can finally get things moving. This doesn't at all solve the problems with the ecosystem, but at least the market size will be substantial out of the gate. We can also look to a leader who understands mobile. I suppose that Android will be successful as a platform, but I have my doubts about how open it will really be once it wiggles onto the device. Shane On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Shane Isbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If that's the case, Google is just another closed, mobile player and > Android is just another mobile system that will fragment the market. We've > all been had. But thanks for the update. > > Shane > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Josh Guilfoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> There is no official comment from Google, but after talking to several >> sources on the team, it is quite clear that they do not expect a >> release until the handsets launch. The ADC round 1 winners are now >> under NDA with Google to get access to private updates which they are >> not allowed to discuss or demonstrate publicly. >> >> For more information, read my blog entry: >> >> http://devtcg.blogspot.com/2008/05/detail-of-next-public-sdk.html >> >> On Jun 17, 10:24 pm, maceghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Anyone from google care to comment on this ? It seems like r15 is a >> > bit buggy, an update would be in order... >> > >> > On May 11, 8:16 pm, Biosopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > > We need regular updates...especially because this isn't a shipped >> > > product so Google should be providing updates more rapidly. Google's >> > > stated approach to dev rapid prototyping so they should be putting out >> > > 2 new SDKs for each AppleSDK. >> > >> > > That said, I'm glad they didn't put out one during the last month of >> > > the Round One Challenge. A new release might have broken one of the >> > > many work arounds I'd created for the many issues I addressed for >> > > submitting for Round 1. >> > >> > > Now though, I hope many of those bugs have been squashed in the past 2 >> > > months. SO....! Please give us the newSDKas I'm sure I'm no >> > > different from other developers...holding off dev until the new >> > > release comes out. >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
