Android is DOA anyways. Looks like a cheap way for some second rate carriers and phone companies to get a free linux distribution to fork from. With no requirement they retain compatibility or put their changes back into the alliance, there is no way this thing isn't going to branch immediately and then quickly die.
I actually somewhat agree with where you're coming from. Over at http://www.ohadev.com/forum/ someone mentioned that this type of thing is very disruptive to the old model of business, and that the OHA members might even sabotage the project because it's too risky for them to go all in.
I think it's a little tin-foil-hattish to assume that the OHA members will actively disrupt Android's usefulness, but it does seem plausible that they might not fully embrace it. In any case, though, we're not dealing with some hacked together only-for-show alliance here. Google has a hell of a lot more power than any company that's tried this before. Strategically they must feel that this has a decent chance of succeeding, otherwise they wouldn't be trying it, and the simple fact that so many people are paying attention to it means that it's got a pretty good chance of working out.
After all, would _you_ want to piss off Google by dishonestly joining up with a consortium then taking a big dump all over it?
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cruci fiction @ Nov 5th 2007 4:58PM
Android is DOA anyways. Looks like a cheap way for some second rate carriers and phone companies to get a free linux distribution to fork from. With no requirement they retain compatibility or put their changes back into the alliance, there is no way this thing isn't going to branch immediately and then quickly die.
AndyB @ Nov 11th 2007 7:53PM
I actually somewhat agree with where you're coming from. Over at http://www.ohadev.com/forum/ someone mentioned that this type of thing is very disruptive to the old model of business, and that the OHA members might even sabotage the project because it's too risky for them to go all in.
I think it's a little tin-foil-hattish to assume that the OHA members will actively disrupt Android's usefulness, but it does seem plausible that they might not fully embrace it. In any case, though, we're not dealing with some hacked together only-for-show alliance here. Google has a hell of a lot more power than any company that's tried this before. Strategically they must feel that this has a decent chance of succeeding, otherwise they wouldn't be trying it, and the simple fact that so many people are paying attention to it means that it's got a pretty good chance of working out.
After all, would _you_ want to piss off Google by dishonestly joining up with a consortium then taking a big dump all over it?