On Feb 15, 4:12 pm, Moandji Ezana <[email protected]> wrote: > I actually like Sense (but I haven't used stock outside the emulator), but > I'm stunned that in the short time between CES and Mobile World Congress, > the manufacturers were able to go from not having access to Honeycomb to > beta implementations. Clearly, if they abandoned the skins, it'd be a lot > easier and quicker for them to update their phones/tablets.
Not necessarily. A demo version of an OS is not ready for production, at the very least it still needs to go through your own regression test. Then you need to test the stuff that the carrier customization brings to the table - enabling / disabling some features, custom apps; another regression test. Finally, the carriers will test the devices internally, too - and they may reject them for whatever reasons (look at Galaxy S in the U.S. - at least until January it was still on 2.1 but on 2.2 in the rest of the world). And beyond that you have other considerations. Look at Gingerbread - it only is on the Nexus S AFAIK, and it's been out for two months. The reason may be that another build is promised for April which will add proper multi-core support, so it seems that nobody wants to ship this "interim build". -- 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.
