Would be interesting to see if there's any cut in the 20% time due to the global downturn. Hope not.
take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz http://androidrocks.googlecode.com - Android Consulting. Andy Warhol <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/andy_warhol.html> - "I am a deeply superficial person." On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Andreas Kostyrka <[email protected]>wrote: > > Am Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:33:58 +0530 > schrieb Muthu Ramadoss <[email protected]>: > > I do not think that they want to control what their developers do in > these 20%. Philosophically it's the first working implementation of an > "idea box" to milk the ideas of employees that I've heard of ;) > > Andreas > > > > I don't think Google can control what their developers would spend > > time on in their 20% free time. So we can expect many products coming > > out of Google and their developers competing against both opensource > > and paid. > > > > take care, > > Muthu Ramadoss. > > > > http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz > > http://androidrocks.googlecode.com - Android Consulting. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/04/secrets-for-android.html > > > > > > And > > > > > > http://www.openintents.org/en/node/205 > > > (which was previously > > > http://code.google.com/p/android-passwordsafe/) > > > > > > http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.splashidandroid > > > > > > http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.alienmanfc6.passwordvault > > > > > > http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.android.keepass > > > > > > It would seem that even products where Google don't have a current > > > equivalent product could be at risk of getting rolled on by the > > > Google machine. > > > > > > Al. > > > > > > --- > > > > > > * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * > > > > > > ====== > > > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > > > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > > > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > > > > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > > > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > > > subsidiaries. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
