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Nexus One Getting Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” Update In “The Next Few Days”?

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33 pointsabraham12 comments

I find it a little odd that an open source project seems so opaque. Maybe I'm missing something, but there seems to be no concrete news on Android 2.3. This article says that Nexus one devices will get 2.3 in the next few days. However, TechCrunch doesn't have anything under their "android" tag talking about 2.3 before that (http://techcrunch.com/tag/android/). One would think there would be a better flow of information - that it would be easier to follow this. It's one of the most widely used open source projects and yet the best we have are rumors on it.

I'm not criticizing Google or anyone, but it just seems weird that something that is so high profile and open-source barely has rumor-level information available about its development.

Unfortunately this is standard operating procedure for Android. The source is open, but the development process is not.

>It's one of the most widely used open source projects and yet the best we have are rumors on it.

Join the Open Handset Alliance if you want an inside track. That's the group that develops it.

Android is not in any way open in the same sense as the Linux Kernel is, for instance. Google is the main contributor, and they tend to contribute in massive chunks, primarily when a new version drops.

It's more akin to MySQL's open source edition, where in no way do you know what the core team is really planning or doing until they pull a shocker.

I hope that they fix that UI issue where an unchecked box has a grey-ish checkmark in it. Stuff like that just kills me.

After coding on Android for a bit, I've long given up on little things like that since so many other things just stink.

For example, I love that I can stick in a UITableView in iOS and actually get a decent looking table, while the Android table looks like something from MS-DOS circa 1994.

Please, someone enlighten me: what should we discuss here?

Not all postings need or warrant discussion; that doesn't invalidate them as unworthy of posting. For many people (eg. those working in web, mobile) this could be useful knowledge, in which case it is just serving as a Public Service Announcement.

Just read it and them move on.

If we follow how everyone else discusses android releases, we're to wildly speculate about all of the amazing new features of the update, despite no official word on what the features are.

We could also grumble something vague about how weird it is that a platform which makes such a big deal about its openness is being developed with such a 100% opaque model that we must resort to wild speculation to discuss a major update that's supposedly just a few days away.

I only hope this is to counter the Streisand effect.

Edit: Ah wait wrong effect. What's the one I'm thinking of?

Maybe Osborne effect?

and wail about the "F" word (fragmentation).

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