Google Not Releasing Honeycomb!!

[Anubis]

this is offtopic but

people actually use live wallpapers?

 

[theeedude]

Update: You can get it, but you have to sign a NDA:

http://mashable.com/2011/03/24/honeycomb-androidocalypse/

Jeez

Yeah, it still sucks, especially for community development, like HC for Nook.
Also, manufacturers are completely in charge as far as bastardizing it with overlays, since end users can't go around them and get the pure Honeycomb for their device. I wonder if the real goal is to make life harder for patent trolls looking though the source code.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

chpwn chpwn retweeted by comex



Android is so open Google won't release the source code: businessweek.com/technology/con… (At this point, why bother? It's just as closed and worse.)

24 Mar

 

[zerocool84]

Damned if you do and damned if you don't. If they say it sucks and they're holding off until they can make it better, isn't that a good thing?

 

[Glitchny]

Damned if you do and damned if you don't. If they say it sucks and they're holding off until they can make it better, isn't that a good thing?

Yes it is a good thing, the only people really hurt by this are people making roms and those that use them. And strangely I haven't really noticed much outrage coming from CM team, Koush, birdman, and a few other Rom dev's I follow on Twitter. Hell Koush even said that it makes sense to lock down HC.

it does make sense that they are leaving HC closed for now, seeing how Samsung just mashed Froyo onto a Galaxy Tab

Although he did complain a lil as well.

 

[the DRIZZLE]

IMO this about protecting the Moto and Samsung as well as the Android brand. They don't want low end manufacturers flooding the market with crap before the more polished products are ready.

 

[zoiks]

Open source fail

They said that they'll be releasing it later. You want them to release it when it won't work on other tablets properly?

 

[zoiks]

IMO this about protecting the Moto and Samsung as well as the Android brand. They don't want low end manufacturers flooding the market with crap before the more polished products are ready.

Yep. That's exactly what would happen. You'd have variants of Honeycomb running everywhere with each one totally fucked up. Then the iOS bitches would be screaming fragmentation all over again.

 

[Raduque]

Seriously, how could you expect that not to lag? Look at what's going on?

Seems to run pretty lag-free on my Huawei S7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nka20RGhy5g