Star Google's Android Platform: Not so Open After All
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 16th Jul 2008 17:24 UTC, submitted by wakeupneo
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless Google vowed that its Linux-based Android mobile platform would empower enthusiasts and amateur developers, but today we have seen compelling evidence that this is an empty promise. Third-party Android application developers, who have grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of SDK updates, were shocked to discover that Google has been secretly making new versions of the Android SDK available to the Android Developer Challenge (ADC) finalists under non-disclosure agreements.
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RE[2]: have to wait
by sbergman27 on Thu 17th Jul 2008 01:59 UTC in reply to "RE: have to wait"
sbergman27
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2005-07-24

Sounds a bit like Novell and XGL. They did come through, but then other options presented themselves.

And quickly supplanted it.

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