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 More options Jun 28 2008, 4:36 pm
From: "efont...@gmail.com" <efont...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:36:43 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, Jun 28 2008 4:36 pm
Subject: Re: Petition - Information about upcoming SDKs!
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(+-),... (+1)
... I'm hoping they are building and umbilical cord to an agent
running web entity for each phone.  That is, of course, the obvious
way to do it but not necessarily the easiest.  I am presuming that
they are doing work that I want to build off of and would rather have
them do. Google has hired each of their employees stating that they
are a 'dog company.' If they get catty with Android developers they
violate employee contracts with each and every one of their employees.
A part of the benefits of working for a particular employer is the
good will bestowed by the population at large on people serving
community by working for that employer. If they are now greeted by
cold stares and shuttered doorways whenever they walk into a room for
the way they have treated the android development community, then that
real benefit is gone.

The other companies in the OHA (...no way are They going to make an
open foot phone!) are not bound by that contractual obligation.
Google needs to make it a bit more clear to their partners that they
have a prior contractual obligation to each and every employee to
treat the android development community right.

Trusting that Google is still a dog company and they will honor the
contracts made with employees at time of hire, I think they are
working to make the wait on the SDK worth it.

Folks here are doing their part in good faith. I'm making a
significant public communication effort to head off frivolous patents
so folks can work unfettered to serve ordinary people. I am also
writing code at the algorithm/UI level to do what needs to be done,
leaving the interface work for Google in their next SDK, or for people
with existing dexterity there.

As long as Google is making prior contractual obligations clear to
their new partners,...

I will sign the petition to be an audience for Google as they show a
little backbone.

On Jun 28, 4:57 am, plusminus <stoeps...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello everyone,

> I'm starting this petition, to express my personal frustration about
> the release cycles and the information policy of the Android SDK.
> Before m5 we were waiting about 2 months, now we are waiting almost 4
> months!
> Partially the SDK is buggy (i.e.: the MediaPlayer) and features like
> built-in Geocoding are not working.

> In order not to lose many highly encouraged developers, I think its
> time to release some news about the development process of the SDK.
> Maybe let us know why we have to live with these long cycles.

> As you maybe know, I am one of the biggest fans of Android, putting a
> lot of work into the community through my forum. But unfortunately
> disappointment is being born in the last weeks :(
> (Especially thinking of recently existing OpenMoko-Phones and the new
> iPhone SDK).

> In my personal opinion it is not the right choice to keep developers
> in the dark. We, the developers, are the absolute base of success to
> the whole Android platform. The presentation with GoogleIO was a good
> first step but for me it was nto enough.

> Therefore I am 'signing' this 'petition', hoping to receive
> information/update on the Android SDK.

> (+1) plusminus

> Regards, plusminushttp://anddev.org
> #  Worlds largest Android Development Community / Tutorials

> PS: I didn't want to depreciate the work of the Android Dev Team or
> anyone else.


 
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