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If they are truly only closing it temporarily for usability and user experience reasons (e.g. 3.0 won't work well on most phones right now), then I have no prob

If they are truly only closing it temporarily for usability and user experience reasons (e.g. 3.0 won't work well on most phones right now), then I have no problem with it.

georgemcbay 16y ago
I don't see why they would or should care about "usability and user experience" for 3rd party devices. Closing Honeycomb's source is not going to stop cut-rate handset manufacturers from shipping a terrible Android experience on their phones, it is merely going to mean the terrible experience will be built on Gingerbread or lower instead of Honeycomb. Either way whatever damage might be done to Android via the user's own bad choices is done and in any case that's a caveat emptor situation that Google can't and shouldn't try to control. I'm not sure what the actual reasons are behind this but IMO the consequences are all pretty negative. This move makes Andy Rubin look like a bit of a hypocrite in light of his public twitter-spat with Steve Jobs, it generates ill will for them among the open source community, it mildly kneecaps one of the important things that make a subset of tech-trendsetters favor Android over iOS, etc, and for what purpose exactly? No good one that is visible from the outside looking in. Ultimately Android is Google's thing and they can take their ball and go home for any reason, but if they are going to do so they should really give a better explaination of why they are doing it because the one they seem to be going with rings hollow.
- ffumarola 16y ago
  > I don't see why they would or should care about "usability and user experience" for 3rd party devices. Because it degrades the users experience with Android. Sure, some manufacturers will create a bad experience using Android 2.2. But, if Google knows that Honeycomb WILL have issues with most handsets, it would be prudent to hold off until those issues are resolved. Just a possibility I'm throwing out there. Haven't read up on the issue yet.

If they are truly only closing it temporarily for usability and user experience reasons (e.g. 3.0 won't work well on most phones right now), then I have no problem with it.

georgemcbay 16y ago

I don't see why they would or should care about "usability and user experience" for 3rd party devices. Closing Honeycomb's source is not going to stop cut-rate handset manufacturers from shipping a terrible Android experience on their phones, it is merely going to mean the terrible experience will be built on Gingerbread or lower instead of Honeycomb. Either way whatever damage might be done to Android via the user's own bad choices is done and in any case that's a caveat emptor situation that Google can't and shouldn't try to control. I'm not sure what the actual reasons are behind this but IMO the consequences are all pretty negative. This move makes Andy Rubin look like a bit of a hypocrite in light of his public twitter-spat with Steve Jobs, it generates ill will for them among the open source community, it mildly kneecaps one of the important things that make a subset of tech-trendsetters favor Android over iOS, etc, and for what purpose exactly? No good one that is visible from the outside looking in. Ultimately Android is Google's thing and they can take their ball and go home for any reason, but if they are going to do so they should really give a better explaination of why they are doing it because the one they seem to be going with rings hollow.

ffumarola 16y ago
> I don't see why they would or should care about "usability and user experience" for 3rd party devices. Because it degrades the users experience with Android. Sure, some manufacturers will create a bad experience using Android 2.2. But, if Google knows that Honeycomb WILL have issues with most handsets, it would be prudent to hold off until those issues are resolved. Just a possibility I'm throwing out there. Haven't read up on the issue yet.