I don't think Google is doing a particularly bad job here, given the fact that they are a web company, not a product company. I guess they are going trough a learning curve.
On Mar 25, 11:55 pm, Eric Friesen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
