Re: [android-developers] ATTENTION ANDROID TEAM: Take back control of Android.

2010-01-18 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Alberto wrote: > Dianne so the Nexus One gets the updates directly from Google after > HTC builds it? Or is there a special partnership between them that > allows Google to update it without HTC? Oh I see it now, the store is > very important. > Please don't read

[android-developers] ATTENTION ANDROID TEAM: Take back control of Android.

2010-01-18 Thread Alberto
Dianne so the Nexus One gets the updates directly from Google after HTC builds it? Or is there a special partnership between them that allows Google to update it without HTC? Oh I see it now, the store is very important. That's kind of the solution to my problem, if the store becomes successful en

Re: [android-developers] ATTENTION ANDROID TEAM: Take back control of Android.

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Murphy
> It might eventually be possible to introduce a compatibility mode so > older applications could run in the latest versions of Android, but I > suspect that is a ways off since it is likely memory intensive. On the whole, older applications run quite delightfully in newer versions of Android. So

Re: [android-developers] ATTENTION ANDROID TEAM: Take back control of Android.

2010-01-17 Thread Ray Benjamin
There is also the issue of phone manufacturers that want to customize Android in order to control the user experience. Since it is an open source application, they are free to do as they wish, even if it means running a version or two behind the official Android release. This is common in the

Re: [android-developers] ATTENTION ANDROID TEAM: Take back control of Android.

2010-01-17 Thread Alessandro Pellizzari
Il giorno sab, 16/01/2010 alle 20.06 -0800, Alberto ha scritto: > So how do we fix this? I'm pretty sure you guys have already thought > about this and I wouldn't be surprised if a solution was coming soon, > since it''s such an obvious problem. However, here's my two cents, the > solution is very

[android-developers] ATTENTION ANDROID TEAM: Take back control of Android.

2010-01-17 Thread Alberto
UPDATE: At first this was going to be just a call to fix the updating process, but I've realized is not just the updates Google needs to take control of. Now is the time to address the fragmentation issue that's starting to plague the platform, before there are hundred of handsets and the whole th