On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Karsten Silz <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Jan 24, 1:58 pm, Moandji Ezana <[email protected]> wrote: > > Really? Couldn't those apps be bundled into the phone without being part > of > > the OS? I suppose that that's what happens with GMail and Maps for new > > phones. > > I think these apps are not part of the open source Android, their are > Google proprietary apps. That's true, but so are GMail and Maps, which comes pre-installed on the phone, but are updated through the Market. One reason I've heard for apps being part of the OS is that they use undocumented and unstable APIs. That could be the case for Dialer, Contacts, etc. Basically, my question is why there would be a "bootstrapping problem", as Casper put it, if all phone functionality is provided via normal apps. Moandji -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
