You're perfectly illustrating my point. I'm in Engineering, not in PR or Marketing or Project Management or Product Management or Partner Support. I write code, I support and maintain it, and on the side I try to help the Android Open-Source Project with my experience in managing multiple branches in large codebases, and I also try to help developers who use the SDK when my experience writing Android code can help, but that's really "it". I can't speak on behalf of or make decisions for the groups I mentioned above.
JBQ On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:31 AM, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mar 19, 6:22 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[email protected]> wrote: >> The reason why I'm a bit grumpy at such discussions is that most of >> those discussions feel like they've been help many times over already, > > Talking about cranky. At the risk that this comes across as harsh, > I'll say: this seems to be coming with the turf. > > Cupcake. > > Perfect example, again. I didn't follow it closely, just to safe my > sanity. > A simple "yeah, we're working on it, stand by" from the Castle's > marketing people a few months ago would have changed craze into > anticipation. > Now one will argue that Apple is secretive about their stuff as well. > But there is a frame of reference for consumers, developers, > stakeholders in general. The last piece I bought from Apple was an > outgoing iMac G3 right after the next iMac was introduced at Macworld. > Everybody counted on that event (the formula changes now, but there IS > a formula) for one reason or another. It was a ritual and everybody > knew something interesting would be coming out of there. > With Google it's like a big swamp where everybody sinks to their knees > in mud. > Even THIS kind of discussion we had over and over and there seems no > progress in relating to the outside world what's going on on the > inside. Heck, over the last year or so, the most reliable source of > information has been the WSJ! What gives? (I know you're an engineer > but still - do you guys talk to your people about these kind of > frustrations to change it for the better?) > > > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further warning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
