Let me quote you on a few previous posts hackbod; "For uninstalling apps without the user's intervention, this is something that would be a little less scary to allow, but we didn't have time to look into this for 1.0. " (http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/71f14048eec1c8df)
"(Btw, Market -is- using some public APIs, in particular a download manager, that are not yet available in the SDK. This is however something you can write yourself, and it is also an API we plan to make available to all apps in the future, we just didn't have time to get it ready for 1.0.) " (http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/96cd537fa07547c8) I'm sorry, but if you keep saying there wasn't time to do things, you have an update released within days of the release date, and someone discovering a reasonably serious security flaw within days of the source code being available, it does paint a picture of a 0.9 beta product set into the wild, not a 1.0 release. As for 3 week without crashing, that really isn't impressive. I thought Android was designed to provide app isolation so the ability of any app to bring down the whole phone would raise concerns in my mind about the app sandbox security. Also, given that it's been in the hands of Google employees for a few months, I would expect it to run for at least 3 weeks without a crash. If you want to find out about some people who have experienced crashes, here are some URLs to get you started; http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=221&p=1536&g=1870&h=17820 http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board/message?board.id=87&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=403#M403 http://davidwatson.org/2008/10/google-android-on-t-mobile-g1-by-htc.html Al. hackbod wrote: > On Oct 25, 12:34 am, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Given the recent OTA update and hackbods comments about some things not >> being they way they would like but they didn't have time to do something >> better, I'm wondering if the OS is more 0.9 than 1.0 and the phased >> roll-out is more about limiting the devices they'd have to recall/fix >> when problems are discovered. >> > > The G1 is running Android 1.0, and we will completely stand by it > being a full non-beta 1.0 release. Just because there are specific > features not included in the product that -you- especially care about > doesn't turn it into a "beta". Maybe it means it is not the product > you want, but that is a far different thing. > > Every software project in the world that manages to release goes > through a phase of dropping features. That is just how it is: there > is always much more you want to do than you have time to do it in. A > well run software project (of which I think Android very much is) - > does- cut out feature, to be able to finish and deliver a stable > product. > > If we didn't release a product until we had done every feature that we > wanted, then we would -never- deliver a product because there are - > always- more things you can add and improve. > > From the reviews I have seen, one of the things that I have seen > mentioned a number of times is about Android being stable -- I believe > one mentioned using their phone for 3 weeks without the system > crashing. This is very much a non-beta product. We put months and > months and long nights of work into making this a great and stable > product, and your repeated comments about it being a "0.9" or "beta" > product just because there are certain features not there that you > want are simply insulting. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
