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As Google moves more and more into the market of being a (the?) content provider for Android devices, they will sooner or later find themselves in the same spot
by pilif 14y ago
As Google moves more and more into the market of being a (the?) content provider for Android devices, they will sooner or later find themselves in the same spot as third-party developers do now: Hurting because they can't use the features that newer platforms would provide.
- fpgeek 14y agoI'm sure Google is already the developer of the most-downloaded, most-popular Android applications, by a large margin. To date, that seems to have motivated them to establish a good foundation for introspection and dynamic dispatch early on and then produce compatibility libraries as needed. I suspect they find the current situation an acceptable trade-off.