News: An Android Developer’s Top 10 Gripes

January 13th, 2010 ADD COMMENTS Share This News: An Android Developer’s Top 10 Gripes

Google to place all the code for their handset platform in the hands of the masses. Not only does this mean anyone can download and roll a new version of their phone firmware, but it also means absolutely any maker can roll its own Android device. I’m looking forward to an Android-powered toaster oven any day now. What’s worse is Google knows how to protect valued code; Its Maps, Gmail, and Store applications aren’t open source. Figuring out when it’s okay to include one of those in your own application requires a crack legal team with a hotline to the EFF. This is the most benign on this list, and it’s only here because now everyone and their brother is going to make a new “Android-powered” device.

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