As for the 3.0 release?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) <-- February 2011.
This is getting boring.
On the contrary, that's a great link.
"Google has chosen to withhold the Honeycomb source code, which called into question the "open-ness" of this Android release.[51] Google's Andy Rubin stated that the latest Android source code would be released "when it is ready". The reason for the delay, according to Rubin in an official Android blog post, was because Honeycomb was rushed for production of the Motorola Xoom.[52]"
Ice Cream Sandwich isn't scheduled to be released until Q4 2011. I wouldn't call a hack job only released for Motorola that's so full of bad code that a normally open-source product refused to ship source, a released product. No other Android manufacturers can even get/use it.
(In violation of the GNU Public License since it's based off of the Linux 2.6 kernel still isn't it? But GNU/Stallman won't say anything because it's their only hope of not being utterly crushed by Apple who's way way ahead in the code cycle.)
Couldn't possibly be a back-room deal with the god-awful businesspeople at Motorola who keep fumbling the business football every time they catch a pass?
Sounds like Apple/AT&T all over again.
That part in the article about Google crushing an App maker who wanted to turn off the GPS device doesn't sound like any Apple stories either, to you, I suppose? LOL.
They're all playing us. Get over it. They make this crap with suicidal workers at Foxconn overseas who hate their jobs. Opened up a Dell 1750 (read: OLD pizza box server) this week at work, and there was Foxconn's name in two inch high letters on the airflow shroud over the power supply.
My dad's generation "needed" beer and hot cars. Now beer companies are blasé and cars aren't interesting anymore as demand slips.
The next generation "needs" always on Net connectivity. Mobile Net gadgets are bound to be made like candy until we're sick of being always connected.
Generation after mine would just appreciate it if the old farts would start retiring so they could have a job better than fast-food which are full of laid off Boomers and Xers right now.
Boomer wave is just starting to slow their consumer spending. Wait it out for the next 10 years and watch the economic crickets chirp. Most companies that publish earnings aren't beating inflation by any significant margin. The growth is usually dollar value loss making revenues look higher.
Anyway, a tangent there to point out that all this gadget buying is normal. And that it paid for a new liver for Mr. Jobs and a few private jets for the Google geeks. They "graciously" feed Silicon Valley a nice lunch every day to look the part of the good guys, while they cozy up to Motorola on the golf course.
Ain't nothin' new under the Sun, amigo. Toshiba was making things smaller and lighter all the way back to the Portege' 3010/3015 series and the "mighty" Pentium I, which Intel truly designed in Israel... not California.
These silly "spec" debates between tech company fans have been around since 9600 baud was fast and Usenet was King.
So if that's what you mean by "boring", yep. You're just part of their Marketing reindeer games that aren't anything new. Neither are the OSs. Unix is still Unix. Only the machine style has changed.
