Xavier,
I think despite the complaints you are doing a great job. Yes, in an
ideal world it would work a little better, but developers are always
whiners :). I'm sure it's an extremely well known fact for anyone that
deals with IT/IS departments and isn't part of that group :). At least
it was that way in every company I worked for.
I personally think you guys do great work, and I'd much rather have you
working on the the next great feature, even if means we don't know about
it until after it's released.
I just hope the whining doesn't affect your emotional state too much :).
You can be assured that most developers on this list and elsewhere are
very appreciate of the work you do.
Sincerely,
Brad Gies
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On 21/07/2011 10:32 AM, Xavier Ducrohet wrote:
Hi String,
Thanks for this release summary. Yes, we didn't do a good job for 3.2
but unlike what someone else said in the thread this hasn't always
been the case.
It's not like we don't care, on the contrary. But it's just that
things get in the way of releases sometimes. We'd love to give you
more advanced versions.
By the way, for honeycomb you forgot that we released a preview SDK on
January 26th. Sure it wasn't final, but it gave a really good preview
of what was coming up in 3.0. I think the emulator situation just
rendered this kind of moot though (in term of testing your existing
apps on the new version).
Xav
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:50 AM, String<[email protected]> wrote:
This was never an issue with 1.x. The SDKs were all released before OTAs
started rolling out to what few phones were in the wild.
It was an issue with Eclair. The 2.0 SDK was released on 27 October 2009,
and the original Droid hit the streets less than 2 weeks later, on 6
November. Given the big leap that Eclair represented, that just wasn't
enough lead time, especially given Verizon's big marketing push for the
Droid.
Things got worse with 2.1, which went on sale with the Nexus One
on 5 January 2010; the SDK wasn't released until 11 Jan. We were pretty
steamed up about that one, as I recall.
Froyo was a step forward again; the SDK was released right after I/O 2010,
on 20 May. I can't find an exact date for when phones in the wild started
getting it, but IIRC it was first OTA'ed to the Nexus One sometime in June,
and no actual handsets were released with Froyo for a couple more months
after that.
Gingerbread wasn't too bad either, with the SDK coming out on 6 December
2010, and the first handset (Nexus S) hitting the streets ten days later.
While this may look similar to the Eclair situation, it actually wasn't as
bad for devs; it wasn't as big of a leap in the platform, and the Nexus S
had much lower early sales than the original Droid, especially in the
context of the wider ecosystem.
IMHO, the initial Honeycomb release was the worst. The SDK was released
on 22 February 2011, and the Xoom came out just 2 days later. But it's
actually worse than it looks from the pure dates; because 3.0 was such a
jump, and also because the emulator was (is) so unusable. It was months
before many devs could realistically even try their apps on it, much less
develop for it.
So in context, the 3.2 update is pretty much par for the course. Google
could unquestionably do a much better job with this, but the developer
community has been saying that for a long time now, and there's little (if
any) sign of improvement. It's clearly just not a priority for the decision
makers in Mountain View.
String
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