Portakai- One of the specific goals of the ADP was to provide developer phones in countries where the G1 was not available. As you know, the G1 originally shipped in just one country (U.S.) while the ADP (if I recall correctly) shipped in 18 countries.
We included as much software as we could, and we share your belief that developers everywhere should be enabled to the greatest extent possible. But the regulatory environment is *very* complex, when you include issues of licensing, radios, and telecom & privacy laws. It's simply not possible to deliver the same software everywhere. --andy On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Portakal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is probably the most rubbish answer I get from the first hand so > far. Since this is the "developer" version, it "must" include all the > available options on it, so a developer -living anywhere on earth- can > build a program and test upon it. > > And for the record, I live in Turkey, officially no Latitude support > here, however with just a simple query string parameter, I can easily > use it. > > - O. > > On Mar 10, 4:23 am, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[email protected]> wrote: >> Unlike consumer devices that are designed for specific regions or >> countries, the Android Dev Phone 1 is a worldwide phone, configured to >> be identical in all geographies. The Android Dev Phone 1 ships in >> countries where Google Latitude isn't available, and that currently >> prevents from enabling Google Latitude on the Android Dev Phone 1. >> >> JBQ >> >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Mark L. Chang <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > JBQ - any insight into what the policies are @GOOG in determining what >> > gets left out of ADP builds? I can understand the Amazon MP3 stuff, >> > random TMO branding packages, and I can even live with the annoying >> > single-transport IM program. But no Latitude? The Latitude web page >> > (http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html) shows: >> >> > Google Latitude is a feature of Google Maps for mobile on these >> > phones: >> > * Android-powered devices, such as the T-Mobile G1 >> >> > Guess we'll need an asterisk there* (except the Android Developer >> > Phone 1). >> >> > Hrmph. >> >> -- >> Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru >> Android Engineer, Google. >> >> Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private >> will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further >> warning. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
