tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:155008 yljatlhQo'! QIch lo'laltbebej! adric 2009-09-26T23:30:20Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:155008:9581 2009-09-25T19:59:04Z 2009-09-26T23:30:20Z public 0 It is the sort of problem I've become familiar with lately. For solid business reasons, big G has left a small shiny frosting of commercial software on top of their otherwise open (source) system. This has, as always, caused a big mess for both the developing company Google, outside developers, and users. In this case we are talking about the Google developed mobile (phone) platform Android. There's been a lawyer letter sent to an outside developer and a great deal of noisy poorly conceived commentary already, so bear with me while I explain.<br /><br /><b>ETA:</b> It's over and Google has fucked it. Details from Cyanogen are on his Twitter feed: <a href="http://twitter.com/cyanogen">http://twitter.com/cyanogen</a> or Google's mealy-mouthed blog post: <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/09/note-on-google-apps-for-android.html">http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/09/note-on-google-apps-for-android.html</a>. Also worth noting: the new Market application that seems to have provoked this stupidity is pretty nice, much better than the previous one. xda-developers are furious that CM was singled out.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://adric.dreamwidth.org/9581.html#cutid1">Read on for more...</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />Your comments are appreciated. In particular this piece is too long but I am unsure that it can be accurate and be much shorter. Thanks for reading!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=adric&ditemid=9581" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments