Developers revolting on Gphone?
July 15th, 2008
Section: Communications, Cellphones, Smartphones, Mobile
Some developers are getting fed up. Just a few months ago, they were the hope for higher level of happiness with our phone. Now, they’ve become teenagers: depressed, full of angst, holding ill will toward “the man”. In the developer forum, a petition has been presented that is gaining some steam with a reasonable list of demands: let us know WTF is going on.” I am paraphrasing here.
With this past weekends news of 10 million iPhone apps (and I am personally addicted to sifting through the App Store in my free time - damn Apple), you’ve got to wonder how strong a temptation it is just to give up on Android’s promises and move on. Surely Google is feeling some of this:
In my personal opinion it is not the right choice to keep developers in the dark. We, the developers, are the absolute base of success to the whole Android platform. The presentation with GoogleIO was a goodfirst step but for me it was nto enough.
I am not keen to find out I’ve painted myself into a corner over the summer when an SDK update finally comes out. I guess I’ll hang out at the beach more. Summer of no code…
i lost patience long ago. will keep coding/waiting untill the end of july. then ill eigther switch to the iphone (if sells are good) or windows mobile. i see absolutely no use in working with a barely finished SDK on an emulator without a piece of hardware in my hand. MOBILE phone development is no fun if you cant test it MOBILE.
Then we have a supposed quote from Google that says they are considering a branded mobile phone: the Gphone lives!!! Doubt it.
Petition: [Google Forum] Related article [the register]
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