Yes, I stand by my assessment that it is effectively dead - I believe they have relegated it to lower priority. Have you noticed that there has been no post from the bosses in a long while - Dan Morill, David McLaughlin? Have you noticed that in the past they would swarm over the board to clear away any rumors or misconceptions. Why the deathly silence? I would suggest you watch Marissa Meyer's short video lecture on how to kill off a project. She is one of the top execs at Google - perhaps COO (?). She says they regularly do it at Google, and they later on morph it into something else.
On Jul 3, 6:53 pm, 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! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
