You should really move this thread to android-discuss, so that people who are actually trying to achieve something here don't see their discussions lost in the noise.
Thanks, JBQ On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Schiffres <schifty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is a message to all other Android Developers, bloggers, or > interest groups. Unfortunately, it is rather evident that, for a > myriad of reasons, Android as an OS simply isn't on the same level as > the iPhone in what it offers, what it can do, how it runs, etc. etc. > As a full supporter of most everything Google endeavors to take on, I > am gleeful to see Android, an open source competitor challenging the > iPhone. Google has brilliant engineers, a plethora of resources, and > the flexibility to test and experiment wacky ideas that become the > technological standard of tomorrow. So why isn't Android commensurate > to the iPhone? My opinion is that it's because Google doesn't make > any, even a small stream, of revenue from Android, which is a major > disincentive and makes it economically infeasible and to pour > resources into it to make it the best and most competitive possible OS > it can be. While I hope Google addresses this issue in the future, we > need to make it easy for the current Google engineers to create a > competitive project, and that means, in the true spirit of open > source, we must contribute. So developers, educated Android savvy > technological wizards, come together, and below post everything you > would want to see in an Android update to both put Android on par with > the iPhone, and push it beyond. Put ideas that well up on the brink > of your imagination below, think up the next big idea, the brilliant > feature that'll make Android the unparalleled smart phone champion. > Once Android is more popular, better phones will be made for it, it'll > have more developers, and Google will invest more money in it, but we > need to give it that first push. Below, use our collective wisdom and > create a single thread that will document all the features, all the > tools, the code libraries, etc. etc. that we want to see in Android, > and when our thread gets large enough, Google won't be able to help > but notice, and address our needs, our desires, and our demands! > > "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi > > > > -- 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
