Misquoted
Well, to be charitable, it was a bit late and so perhaps what I said came out wrong, but in this article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/14/android_developer_unrest/
I'm quoted as saying the problem is with "upper management", which I don't really believe to be the case, going by snippets of conversations and things I've read. Frankly, at this point in time, I have no idea why Google can't talk about Android.
Also, I had several other positive things to say to the reporter, but I guess the 'focus' of the piece was about the problems that Android is currently experiencing. Notwithstanding the recent weirdness, I'm quite happy that someone with a lot of money and muscle is going to be backing an open source mobile phone system, and hope that the current troubles are merely a small speed bump.
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about 1 hour later:
a lot of money/muscle backing an open source mobile system?
which one is this?
i know FIC is sort of an OK player in the motherboard market or whatever, but theyre certainly not the size of Google or Verizon..
about 2 hours later:
A BigCo with lots of money backing an opensource mobile platform ...
That'll be Nokia buying and opening Symbian.
about 4 hours later:
niq - do you think Nokia would have done that without Android? Do you think Symbian is at all pleasant to work with?
Despite the current weirdness, I still trust Google to open up Android, or face some very severe backlash.
1 day later:
it will be interesting to see what nokia comes up with, with both Symbian and QT under their wing
of course theyll want to sell phones with android if that proves to be an OS people want
then theres QTopia, Enlightenment, GTK stuff, and some JAVA thing all running on the moko
itneresting times, unless youre apple