On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 12:53:53 PM UTC-4, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Chris Stratton <cs0...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:29:03 AM UTC-4, DanH wrote: >> >> Additionally, Android, as it's currently designed, does not have >>> "legs". The process model and UI are both too restrictive to be >>> extendable to the pads and other new paradigms of the future. >> >> While I would agree that there are some unfortunate and limiting decisions >> in the design of android (but maybe not agree with you about which those >> are), I'm not sure that this actually matters that much in the long run. >> > > I would still like to know what people think won't scale, because I believe > I have a pretty good idea of how this happens... and if there are things I > am missing, it would be useful for me to know so I can think about them. >
It's not "scaling" I'm worried about, as my point was that people are already replacing the parts that don't work for them and will presumably do even more of that as time goes on. But I do think there were aspects of the starting point which were unfortunate _for many purposes_ - that's easily demonstrated by the daily variety of queries from people wanting to do things which the hardware is capable of, but which the current state of android excludes or renders inefficient, either as a result of not yet being included or a philosophical belief that they should not be available. Now that there are outside groups orgnized to offer and meaningfully deploy alternatives suiting their own visions of how things should work, much of what was initially disappointing seems less likely to be a long term problem. I don't expect one philosophy can accommodate every interest; my point is that the overall android-leveraging ecosystem is already branching outside the boundaries of the original vision. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
