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> The platform that those apps run on is just as open now as it was in the G1 days. It never was open. Sure, Google ups a bunch of source code to AOSP after t
by Aaargh20318 8y ago
> The platform that those apps run on is just as open now as it was in the G1 days.
It never was open.
Sure, Google ups a bunch of source code to AOSP after the release of a new version but there is no actual OSS-style development going on. All development is behind closed doors, only done by Google and the public cannot contribute.
I cannot check out the latest development version of Android from github, fix some issues and send a PR. It's all a one-way street.
- lern_too_spel 8y agoAgreed. It might have made sense to do development behind closed doors in the early days with the mobile patent war raging, but now that most advances are in apps and services on top of the platform instead of in the platform itself and now that Apple is way behind in features and usability and has no way to catch up, they might as well switch to the Chrome development model, or at least the Fuchsia model where the roadmap and design discussion is closed but the code is entirely open.
- Aaargh20318 8y ago> Apple is way behind in features and usability LOLWUT ? Apple is years ahead of Android.
- lern_too_spel 8y agoMy team of ten went from majority iPhone to all but two on Pixels with the last two saying they will switch on their next upgrade. It's not due to cost — the iPhone X or the Pixel costs nothing to the employee. It's due to sheer usability.