It's not necessarily what hasn't been released in documentation/source form, it's the measures which could be seen as steps taken to deliberately ensure that competitors can't access the same functionality as is available to approved applications which have been signed by the platform certificate.
From what you've said it is impossible for anyone else to deliver an updater which will allow the user to install an updated version of the application without having to go through the system UI (Does Marketplace have to do that?) . It would be impossible for a third party to write a comprehensive dialling interface because it would be blocked from making emergency services calls (Is the shipped dialler blocked from doing that?). It took a lot of complaints to get the anti-trust suits started, and they were all based around functionality which wasn't available to third parties, isn't that what you've just said Android has? Al. hackbod wrote: > On Oct 22, 12:49 am, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Friendly suggestion, read up on the lawsuits against Microsoft for not >> releasing API details (here's a recent >> onehttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/microsoft_goes_open/) >> > > http://git.source.android.com/ > > Exactly what details haven't been released? > > > > -- Al Sutton W: www.alsutton.com B: alsutton.wordpress.com T: twitter.com/alsutton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
