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Product placement, or just failure to think of deserts starting with 'K'?
by involans 13y ago
Product placement, or just failure to think of deserts starting with 'K'?
- runjake 13y agoOn more than one occasion, I heard an Android engineer mutter the term "Key Lime Pie" when (usually on a jovial manner) referring to a future Android version. Who knows? Maybe KLP got old before it came to be.
- cpeterso 13y agoThe Key Lime Pie name was pretty public. I assume JB 4.2 or 4.3 was intended to be KLP, but when Google decided to stick with the JB name, reusing KLP for Android 4.3 or 4.4 would cause too much confusion. Microsoft skipped "DirectX 4" for the similar reasons: after DirectX 3 was released, Microsoft began developing versions 4 and 5 at the same time. Version 4 was to be a shorter-term release with small features, whereas version 5 would be a more substantial release. The lack of interest from game developers in the features stated for DirectX 4 resulted in it being shelved, and the corpus of documents that already distinguished the two new versions resulted in Microsoft choosing to not re-use version 4 to describe features intended for version 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#History