Of course it's not the right thing to do to take it out on JBQ here. I think the big complaint is that there is little information flow and very little communication coming out of the OHA companies about the official direction of Android. As it is now, the only up to date information comes in the form of emails on these groups from engineers who for the most part are only allowed to say "I can't really comment on that". Ultimately if we didn't even have that, and had nothing instead, Android would feel that much closer to being vaporware.
Ultimately someone with the corporate, political clout needs to take interest in rallying the interested parties, keep information and updates and teasers of great things to come flowing at a steady pace through official channels and relieve the poor Google engineers from suffering these kinds of threads. And while we have no real way to convey the need for the improved community involvement to the appropriate people and we can feel free to gripe to one another here. We really shouldn't be insufferable to the few people who are trying to do what they can to remedy a bad situation. The public is very excited about the direction of the mobile industry. If Apple announcing the future implementation of copy & paste can make headline news. Certainly it would not take much for a professional PR person with their finger on the pulse of technology enthusiasts and the mobile community to generate enormous buzz about Android. -E On Mar 25, 2:43 pm, Sundog <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 25, 2:34 pm, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Does google ever intend to treat the developers (who, arguably, will make or > > break the platform) as first class citizens? > > Short answer: No, they don't. > > Why am I so negative? Because there isn't even any mechanism in place > to do so. The very conduit through which this might happen doesn't > exist. We are treated to half-finished developer websites, "blogs" > that have "NEW UPDATES!" from 6 months ago, and the complete sum of > our information is contained in the occasional emails we get from > Google. > > They simply don't care about us. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
