I'm really not allowed to say anything concrete about the possibility of an updated SDK at any point in the future. I'm left with two options: say nothing at all, or try to say as much as I think can get away with about other subjects, even if that doesn't answer the SDK question, and even if I sometimes have to answer in an oblique way.
Saying things I'm strictly not allowed to say wouldn't accomplish anything positive: saying isn't doing, and even if I said something there wouldn't be an SDK available. Furthermore I'd probably lose my job over it, and I'd like to think that I contribute enough to Android that losing my job wouldn't be beneficial to Android as a whole (and it certainly wouldn't be beneficial to me, in more than one way). I'll try to answer a few of the questions that popped up, or to clarify some of my earlier comments... About accelerating the untying or un-gagging: I don't know if there's much to be done. We've been struggling in those restraints for months, and no matter how much we try they don't seem to ever get any looser (but at least they don't seem to be getting any tighter either). I'm afraid that everyone (both engineers on the inside and developers on the outside) will have to be patient. About the advocates: I have no reason to believe that at any point they got gagged more than they already were. Overwhelmed, certainly. Burnt out, possibly. I certainly don't envy their position, and my hat's off to them. "We rant because we care" (slightly misquoted): very well said. I'll reply "we listen and reply because we care". And in the end we all end up within a heated discussion between people who care for exactly the same thing, which is truly bizarre and sad. JBQ (Android Engineer) On Jul 11, 9:23 am, Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JBQ, we need an updated SDK. That's the original point of this post. > Why dodge the main concern us developers are having now? > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:16 PM, JBQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > just-some-guy: is this a way of saying that we (Google Android team) > > should continue to focus on making sure that devices can be available > > as quickly as we possibly can? > > > JBQ (Android Engineer). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
