Its frustrating for all the early developers and the small companies who got on board early. They feel they have been suddenly dropped deep in the ocean, with a promise that a lifeboat is coming to help soon.
All those who are caught in that situation can only hope and pray now. Someone said (Reagan?) Trust but Verify. We trust Google with Android. Hope they can live up to this. On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Mark Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anil wrote: > > But the truth is, Android is effectively dead. > > Your attitude is reminiscent of slimy Wall Street analysts who nail > businesses to the wall for "missing" a quarter's "projections". Any > business or open source endeavor worth pursuing, like Android, is a > marathon, not a sprint. Saying Android is "dead" before devices are even > available is so premature it's sad. > > Look at it this way: At this time in the iPhone's development, few > people outside One Infinite Loop even knew of its existence, since they > didn't announce the project until the device was ready for sale. > Compared to Apple, OHA has been a case study in transparency. > > And Apple has seemed to do OK, at least on hardware sales, despite their > clammed-up nature. Hence, keeping one's mouth shut does not seem to > preclude success in the mobile marketplace. Therefore, the fact that OHA > is "running silent" right now is not necessarily a death knell. > > Does it suck, from our standpoint? Sure. We were wowed by the early > transparency and open-source-ness and have therefore raised our > expectations. But by the standards of the mobile world, our expectations > are downright loony. The fact that our expectations are even conceivable > is a testament to the transparency we do have, not a tombstone atop the > transparency we don't. > > Now, compared to other open source projects, even corporate-backed ones, > the level of transparency since the early days has been dreadful. But > Eclipse, OpenOffice.org, and even Mozilla had rocky beginnings, with > large quantities of code tossed over the wall with little structured > support. They eventually turned the corner and have become solid open > source citizens, if not better. > > In other words: patience, grasshopper. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ -- Available Now! > > > > -- take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://cookingcapsules.com - nourish your droid. http://mobeegal.in - find stuff closer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
