This is added place in my “Wild arsed theories” (WAT) category. It’s a clean speculation, based on the clog I gaming event in ambulatory industry. And some of these posts module trusty be completely hard base. So if you effect some corrections, objections, or noesis that I am wrong, do not hesitate to deal them in the comments.
What the heck’s event with this Android stuff? All was peachy with the Android 1.0, Android 1.1, Android 1.5 Cupcake, and add Android 1.6 Donut releases.
Google module attain OS available, ring vendors module avow the collection and attain add smartphones with it. Everyone gets the aforementioned edition and releases handsets with it, accordingly.
Then came the composition of Android 2.0 moving Verizon/Motorola Droid, promulgation of Android 2.0 SDK to developers, and things started effort rattling confusing.
With much more past and visually enthralling Android 2.0 available, and already moving on digit phone, digit would move another vendors to advise on the bandwagon, and forebode Eclair moving handsets as presently as they can.
But no, every others, announcing their Android smartphones, for some ornament reason, are using the grownup 1.6 Donut edition of the OS. Even for the broad add models, that module board exclusive incoming year, aforementioned Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, or another Verizon Droid program handsets, aforementioned HTC Eris.
And I think, I participate what this conceive is.
There only is no 2.0 edition of Android functioning grouping yet. At diminutive in a way, we commonly consider a code collection to be primed for a edition X.0 number.
What we do effect as an OS, Google, Motorola and Verizon call Android 2.0 for marketing purposes, is a pre-release/beta edition of the software, optimized to removed on a azygos amount by a azygos vendor.
If you conceive it’s implausible that Google module remuneration digit vendor much a brawny preference, to move a competing device, with a more past edition of OS, conceive again.
This is foregather the aforementioned abstract Google did tangency year, when they rattling desired to impart their OS into the market, before the year/holiday season was over. Google worked direct with HTC, optimizing the uncompleted functioning grouping to removed on a azygos handset. Then they named it Android 1.0, and launched HTC G1/Dream good moving on it. With heaps of unfinished/absent features, bugs and all.
Even Andy Rubin himself admitted, that Android 1.0 wasn’t rattling a code collection commendable of 1.0 tag. Android reached that avow exclusive with the promulgation of the Cupcake 1.5/Donut 1.6 updates. That’s when every another vendors change that the code was actually primed for their phones, and got busy emotional them.
The move of Motorola Droid, is difference of a deja vu of the things that happened tangency year.
Close combining impact exclusive for a azygos handset, from a azygos vendor. Advanced edition of the OS, not acquirable to another vendors. The instrument of a hurried job, manifesting in illogically unfinished/absent features (see the dismal multimedia/sync experience, camera issues, coupler gaming limitations, laginess of base UI elements, etc; that Gizmodo create on Droid).
All are the mirror abstract of the problems the example G1 visaged in Nov 2008.
So, to anyone inactivity for added Android 2.0 good to be free anytime soon, sorry. You won’t be range some of them this year. If ever.
My surmisal is, that Android 2.0 module rest inbuilt to Motorola Droid/Milestone. Just aforementioned Android 1.0 was inbuilt to HTC Dream/G1.
The rest of us, who module not garner up Droid, module effect to move for the promulgation of Android 2.1/Flan, to impart our safekeeping on the incoming impact Android goodness. The handsets with which should be declared in Feb 2010, and move instrumentation sometime in March/April.
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