June 25th, 2008

Dan Morrill: “We’ve said all along that we expect the devices to be out in the second half of 2008, and we’re still on track for that.”

Android News Google Android’s Dan Morrill recently took some time out to answer a few questions from apcmag.com regarding the state of the Android OS and it’s future.

Here’s some highlights from the interview:

We’re in a situation right now where we’re focused very strongly on getting the first device out the door and the reason for that is we want to make sure the first device that ends up in consumers’ hands basically is a good device. We want to set the bar with it. We don’t want to just release the stuff and say “Here’s a platform that’s capable of this huge list of functionalities” and then the first device doesn’t really take advantage of it; that doesn’t tell your story well.

So really what we want to do is make sure that the first device is very high quality, is really compelling to users and that is and it has to be the foundation for everything else we do. So right now our engineers are purely focused on that. We’ve got a few other things that we started doing. We’re not in the early stages of organising how the open source release process is going to go, so we’re starting to answer some of the administrative details of the product.

So when will that happen?

People always ask this question. We’ve said all along that we expect the devices to be out in the second half of 2008, and we’re still on track for that.

[via apcmag.com]