Hello again everybody. I've made a new revision of the document, which I think you'll agree has a nicer tone. Please tell me what you think and I'll publish this so everybody can sign it.
=> http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9hmc43_0c9zh58gd -- Rob On Feb 28, 1:34 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob Kerns wrote: > > Personally, I start with the assumption that these are professional > > developers. Sometimes they have hard choices to make. They need to > > know what the customer pain points are. > > As Mr. Coryat indicated, they are aware of those pain points. I can > attest to this as well. > > > Now, I'm not saying wording can't be improved. If you have specific > > concrete suggestions, I think it would be a fine idea to offer them. > > The executives in charge of Android and the Android Market allocate > engineering time from a much smaller team than most outsiders might > think. Different people on the outside have different reasons for > wanting a different allocation of that engineering time -- you want more > spent on the Market, I want more spent on open source builds, etc. > > At least for the two I cited specifically above, the executives in > charge of Android are well aware of the issues -- to use your term, they > would have to be idiots not to, considering all the noise that has been > made in the past year. All the complaints and subsequent media coverage > have not had an externally-obvious impact on decision-making. > > I am completely unconvinced that even a well-written, well-worded > petition alone would make an impact at the executive level, any more > than anything else tried so far has. The petition being discussed is > neither well-written nor well-worded, IMHO. > > For all the chest-beating going on about not seeing the strategy being > employed by Android executives ("They haven't communicated it, so I > won't pretend to understand it."), there is equally little sign of a > strategy by those who care about this issue. Perhaps I'm not looking in > the right places. As a result, to me, this petition comes across as your > garden-variety Internet rant. If there is a bigger plan, of which this > petition is but one part, please point me to it. Until I see such a > plan, it is difficult to take this petition seriously. > > What I would hope the "bigger plan" would entail is changing the Android > Market by making it obsolete -- building a vastly better market, > evangelizing the heck out of it, etc. But, if that were the plan, this > petition wouldn't seem to be necessary, or even prudent. Of course, > there are other plans, such as organizing developers into a cooperative > and using group action for bargaining power, for which something like a > petition might make sense. > > To me, a petition alone will have as much success as do the Washington > Generals against the Harlem Globetrotters. Or, to quote a delightful movie: > > Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle! > Valerie: Think it'll work? > Miracle Max: It would take a miracle. > > As that movie illustrated, miracles do happen, at least in children's > stories distilled from economics treatises. They also happen > occasionally on hockey rinks. > > If, in this case, it doesn't happen, and you want to develop a long-term > strategy and plan for dealing with this issue, let me know. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ > Version 1.3 Available! -- 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.
