On Mar 18, 2:51 pm, Schiffres <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, a
> good point from Dianne Hackborn, you are all developers or interested
> parties, and the Android platform is an open source project.
This argument does not hold much water in my view. Here's why (chime
in guys please if I don't quite get it...):
Suppose you go ahead to implement a feature that runs counter to
carrier interest, say a SIP client perhaps or taking it a step
further, deep into carrier territory, and port plain old Asterisk to
give access to dynamic least cost call routing on a wholesale basis
(yes, Asterisk DOES run and perform on ARM/Linux straight). Who would
have thought carriers wouldn't like that, so they strip it off their
Android builds and that's that. The platform as a whole is the builds
that the carriers put on the devices that aunt Jeanie and uncle Harold
use out of the box. There's a reason why Al S. and others test on
plain vanilla G1's, as opposed to souped up devices. Certainly there's
going to be a handful of enthusiast that put their own builds on the
device to get back the gold, but again, see aunt and uncle argument.
Only the big G, not even the device makers, has the weight to make
carriers perhaps reconsider. It's totally out of your or the open
source contributor's control whether Google feel like leveraging their
weight to see if carriers are willing to include your pet project
feature. And even if so, in the end, they might lose the battle
anyhow.
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