Android/G1 and the iPhone have exactly the same model right now - unless you are in a special group working for the companies involved, you only have access to create or change inside their specified API. The fact that most of the apps are open source doesn't affect that.
You can point to Linux all you want, but when I was working on porting swsusp (now called tuxonice) to amd64, I had the ability to boot and test my code. That is the "open source model". I do not have the ability to do that on the G1. That is no different than the iPhone, PalmOS, Symbian or any of the others. (Or if you feel it is, please explain how. Here, here is a box containing a magic patch for the camera that makes it take HD video and makes everyone look like a supermodel. Show me how to test it.) On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Brian Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 10:16 -0500, Disconnect wrote: > > That is fine for email (and I encourage people to help out, k-9 is a > > great project) but it doesn't address the failings of the "community > > will fix it" model. > > > > Then get an iPhone. I don't know why people keep up this thread. No > system is perfect. Android is based on the opensource model. This > model has its advantages and drawbacks, this is obvious when you look at > Linux vs. Windows. If you don't like this model then work on a phone > that has a model that you do like you have more options there than with > the opensource model. If you like the opensource model, then understand > its limitations and work with them, not try and tell us how this is all > wrong. > > BTW just because you disagree with a design decision, does not make it > wrong. > -- > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? > > Brian Beattie LFS12947 | "Honor isn't about making the right choices. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It's about dealing with the consequences." > www.beattie-home.net | -- Midori Koto > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
