The Open Handset Alliance released an early version of the Android Software Development Kit, providing the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform. The Android platform is a software stack for mobile devices in…

Atleast this thread made me laugh.

BTW I read the average house price in London (central) is actually now over £1m (thats $2m at the magnifique exchange rate

Guess what? I have an OpenMoko phone *in my hands right now* that I am actively *writing apps for, right now*, without problems, without sweat. Without hassle.

So I’d say OpenMoko is far more real than Android. Lets see an actual phone running Android, before we start crapping on the first-out-of-the-gate OpenMoko system - which, incidentally, will allow you to run Android, or QTopia, or whatever else you want on your phone.. so pretty soon, Android is going to be “just another linux distribution for your cell phone” trivia ..

I was in London in 2006. I pity you for having to drive on the wrong side of the road. It’s horribly dangerous. Exits are on the left side as well and your roundabouts are deadly.

I did enjoy your fine dining at Little Chef though, Olympic burger, magnifique!

I actually have the title of President, but that is only titular. I am writing a search engine, and have almost finished it. I understand that you personally can not have that much knowledge, but it has been published in reputable online journals that TechCrunch makes over a quarter million dollars per month. That’s hardly what I would consider too marginal to hire somebody to fact check and give insight.

So I don’t fault you. I fault Mike Arrington for being cheap. Let it be known.
Mike hold off on buying that sports car of the month and get some much needed help for your writers.

BTW, I would love to live in a 600k house!

As a matter of fact the technological club behind OHA seems willing to not disclose the platform until they will eventually get their first mobile equipments on the shelf. One year, he said. A result that could be easy obtained with a deffered GPLv2/v3. The club apparently likes the apache license more, a risky bet considering OEM’s hystorical attitude to proprietarize the “commons” (read Symbian).

I wish them all the best, but lock-down strategies are enabled by a not copyleft license, and this market has greatly proven to not be able to share any sort of standard..

I am a member of the FSF and heard the big long speech last March from Stallman et al.

“During Q&A he said he hadn’t “heard” if Android will support Flash Lite, but he did say the Webkit would support Netscape style plugins.”

This is very unopen source. Normally a CVS or SVN would be posted with the code in beta stages for a FOSS project.
They aren’t posting it because they don’t want it fragmented and resold before they release it.
That’s the truth.

Otherwise companies like OpenMoko could refine Android and release it before Google does. It’s GPL so that’s legal.

You guys REALLY NEED a technical adviser to give you some insight into the announcements and decisions made by developers. You don’t have the technical background or knowhow to write good articles. I’m sorry.