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I think this is great for Android as a whole, users will be better served. It does cut into the openness of Android though. Unless Amazon bends to Google's way
by myko 13y ago
I think this is great for Android as a whole, users will be better served.
It does cut into the openness of Android though. Unless Amazon bends to Google's way of doing things a little bit their platform will stay even further behind, for instance.
- Zigurd 13y agoIndeed it makes an increasingly important part of Android closed. It would have been better to make all of the parts of Android OS that run in a Dalvik instance updatable - or something like that. Unfortunately that part of Android is effectively held hostage by OEM modifications. It would be nice that if an OEM commits to limiting their modifications to, say, at worst, some privileged apps, that there would be a workflow from Google's OS development to the SoC makers' chipset support engineering, to the OEMs so that new versions could be continuously integrated and therefore delivered to each product shortly after release. That plus some kind of community support model for EOL'ed products would harness openness in the cause of timely updates and long-term support.