If past experience is any indication, there are more areas of concern: sensors, camera preview come to mind. I suppose everybody agrees that a big inventory of apps are a big win- win for everybody involved (although a case could be made that many of the devs that put in the effort and investment upfront start finding out that their cut of happiness is rather small). Thus far we have not heard that independent devs had an opportunity to test out their stuffs on the Motorola/Verizon Droid, under NDA of course. I am sure a campaign by Verizon/Motorola that involved independent devs would have long leaked, so I assume Verizon's Droid will hit the dev community cold. Supposedly with Android 2.0, even. If this was all the case, wallpapers and ringtones aside, I am sure plenty of apps will be borked, until everybody had a chance to catch up. No question there will be a barrage of snotty comments in the Android Market for those that didn't stay on their toes to black out Verizon on the Market Publishing site, and I am sure Apple, Nokia and others won't be far behind to add insult to injury. Would that actually be a good thing? Perhaps, just to shake things up. At this point, there doesn't seem to be much acknowledgment by the higher powers that independent devs aren't getting an opportunity to actively participate in the development and launch of a new product or SDK release in a way that allows them to make apps available on day one, and in a way that's commensurate with the earnings potential of apps that the parties involved, Google, carriers, manufacturers, wish to leverage into unit sales. To make clear text out of this, going back to the OP's question: Dev phones by the various manufacturers will have to be made available at a considerable discount, or we can say goodbye to rich, meaningful apps, in all the beautiful variety, at least. JP
On Oct 25, 2:17 pm, "Fred Grott(Android Expert)" <fred.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: Yes that is going to be the problem those doing cool stuff like opengl need an actual device.. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
