Ohh yeah, I forgot Android was from Google. In that case, I think Google has not given Android the justice it deserves. Last time I checked, Android's store needs quite some work in order to be taken seriously by companies that develop commercial software that sells on the AppStore. However I think this is a general problem with Google. They seem to be getting into lots of projects which have lots of promises. Some of the projects have come through very well but some are just there... The lattest one is the programming language.
Specifically with the Android, I believe Google was hoping for device manufacturers to take it up and push it through. However this approach doesn't seem to work so well nowadays. It seems like if a company has an idea, they have to see it through completely, and I think this is why Apple has been successful with their products.
Come to think of it this is the same issue that plagues open source software. OSS depends on a community to build it until it can be useful to the end consumer but that process can be slow. Even though the OSS software can be more beneficial than an equivalent proprietary software, the proprietary will beat it coz the company building it will see it through from start to finish without depending on an external party to add value to it to the point of making it end-usable.
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--- On Sun, 11/22/09, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
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