Android Intro - What To Expect From the Platform

[BedHead]

Lifehacker have published a great write-up on Android. It'll serve as a great starting point for people new to the platform and also help fill in a few gaps with those that are.

Also like the added 'what we want' section - definitely worth a read.

http://lifehacker.com/5052054/what-t...ere-hoping-for

[Buck]

Nice article, thanks.

Open-source, closed carriers: As our sibling site has noted, Android's Apache license allows phone companies to do pretty much whatever they'd like with their code. That means, if they chose to, companies like Verizon and Sprint could disable or enfeeble parts of the system, and the "Android store" can be filtered to carry only carrier-approved apps. There might be work-arounds in the wild, but the average customer isn't inspired by the phrase "firmware hack."

Gonna be interesting to see how all this is handled, and to what extent they'll go with it.