I think you've missed two key points; 1) What makes you so sure Android is aimed at the enterprise market?, out of the box it lacks support for many enterprise features (PDF viewing, M$ office document support, etc.), which makes me believe that Android is aimed at the geek/consumer market where it will gain it's base and then possibly grow into the already crowded enterprise device market where exchange support is important. As it stands it has the features to support the geek/consumer market quite well (as the sales figures have shown).
2) "Release Early, Release Often" is now a well established development method (coming from http://catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html), so your suggestion of wait until every major platform is supported before release is flying in the face over a decade of experience from several open source development teams. 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. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ram1024 Sent: 17 May 2009 01:13 To: Android Discuss Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Please GoogleDevTeam, work on Android Exchange Support when you're trying to launch a NEW platform, you MUST comply and support as much as possible. if you are a huge seller already and decide NOT to support common enterprise application that is a completely different scenario. you really don't understand corporate if you think any well-to-do company will adopt android phones and rely on a third party untried solution to handle their mobile email communication. exchange may be completely terrible, but that is far from a valid reason to deny supporters of your platform, handset manufacturers and software development and mobile network carriers, traction in the enterprise market. the proper strategy is to support all products to your best ability, then simply make your version of the product better than what people are using. and that will start people migrating away from inefficient and frustrating "solutions" to adopt good products. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
