Guys, this is ridiculous. Android, like Linux, is a completely open source OS, and we are all running variants of it, with pieces of preinstalled software of varying openness and licenses. All the different RC updates are packaged for a specific client (T-Mobile), for their customer base.
Also, it gets said all the time on this list, but again: the G1 isn't Android. The Android codebase is a pure abstraction, whereas the G1 is a specific implementation of it, and is full of compromises (like a closed-source Market app, and not having root access). The developer phone has far fewer compromises, but even that has at least one (no access to copy-protected paid apps). If you want a phone with no compromises, start a phone manufacturing company and make one. Thanks to Android, it's a whole lot easier to do exactly that. -- Eric On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Muthu Ramadoss <[email protected]> wrote: > Anything not opensource and not part of android must be yanked out of the > android website and must be part of the particular implemetation like g1, g2 > etc., > > On Mar 18, 2009 1:30 AM, "Eric Friesen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well this reasoning has been brought up numerous times but I think it > is quite lame. Visit android.com. More specifically visit > http://www.android.com/about/videos.html#category=peeks > > Here you can see an "Android" phone boasting about features that > AREN'T android. This would be like going to Microsoft's website for > WindowsXP and having it boast about the features of the paid version > of Microsoft Office. > > If they aren't going to make these bits of code a part of Android, > they shouldn't show them off on any OHA or android.com website. They > should only be on T-Mobile's website for why you should buy a G1. And > they shouldn't be bragging about how there isn't a googlephone there > are many googlephones. Since it looks like the hardware doesn't exist > and if it did exist, wouldn't even have the full boasted software > stack. > > They want to eat their cake and have it too. "Android has all these > great features.. They just aren't actually provided" > > On Mar 15, 11:56 am, MrSnowflake <[email protected]> wrote: > > Even the > open source trees (mas... > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
