Android right now (and especially the versions that you can see in the public SDKs) is definitely not shippable on consumer devices, and that is definitely not what is going to ship.
That's why you're not seeing devices right now: there's still some work to do to stabilize, debug, fine-tune and optimize many aspects of the Android platform and its applications (and the devices also have to be manufactured and shipped to the retailers). That's why Android engineers haven't generally been very visible on the developer forums: it takes some effort to go from a development phase to an alpha phase to a beta phase to shippable product, and that's what we're focusing on. By the time Android ships, it won't be pre-alpha any more, by a wide margin. JBQ On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Anil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
