note that android is just the 'unifying' programmable interface on top of the various ( usually linux based I believe) smarthphones from the manufacturers. The open source part really just refers to the parts that they have exposed to the public.
BUT the original statement is true that android is wayyy more open as compared to apple/iphone. Also there are deployment issues wrt apple controlling what gets on the phones, in the marketplace, etc etc. not to mention having to shell over $ just to get the toolkit to do anything with it. something interesting that someone mentioned at the last seajug meeting was a project called http://xmlvm.org/ which is a cross-compiler toolchain for translating programs between different platforms. It converts from different languages to an XML representation of the program .They've already done the part which converts from the XML representation to being able to run the iPhone so maybe all you might have to do is figure out the part which converts from python to the XML representation that they use. Looks really cool. cheers, -- Nimret Sandhu http://www.nimret.com On Friday 26 March 2010 12:57:43 pm Christopher Barker wrote: > James Thiele wrote: > > Were can I download the source to Gmail and Google Docs? Android is > > kinda lame without them. :) > > I said android was open -- not Google software in general ( I say as I > get frustrated with a few bugs in Picasa on Linux...) > > -Chris >
