Perhaps I am missing something but that sounds like putting the cart
before the horse :)
If Android is pre-alpha, then what will you ship on the devices?
Will there be a way for the user to upgrade/flash his device to the
latest platform release?
Otherwise it may be a disaster.


On Mar 29, 11:28 am, "Jean-Baptiste Queru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (Notice: I'm a Google Software Engineer working on Android).
>
>
> From that point of view, every day that passes without devices out there
> hurts the entire Android ecosystem, and therefore has a high cost.
> Because of that, whenever anyone has to choose between doing
> something that directly helps ship those first devices and something
> that doesn't directly help, the latter option has to carry a very high value
> in order to outweigh for the cost of delaying the first devices. That's why
> the SDK isn't as polished as it could be, that's why Google employees
> aren't as present on those forums as they could be: it would distract
> from the primary goal of shipping devices in 2008.

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