Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android

loconet writes "This article in Gizmodo claims that Android's fragmented model is harming it, but Google has the power to save it. The rumored Google Phone could be a ploy to upset the wireless industry, or it could be an expensive niche device. Either way, it would be a bid to take Android back from the companies that seem hell-bent on destroying it. '...once handset manufacturers (and carriers, through handset manufacturers) have built their own version of Android, they've effectively taken it out of the development stream. Updating it is their responsibility, which they have to choose to uphold. Or not! Who cares? The phones are already sold."

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[hapiamesir]

great info....

Re:Such as what again?

[SuperKendall]

There are a lot of apps though that are rejected for little to no reason.

That is just plain wrong in two ways.

The biggest is that there's always a reason. You may not agree with the reason, but there's always a reason.

The second is the term "a lot" would imply, well, a large quantity. The fact is there are a small handful that get rejected, and of those some portion usually get accepted with a few tweaks and further review.

You just think there are a lot because there are a small number of very vocal people complaining. You simply cannot physically get 100k apps through a review process if it were as hard as you say, I know as I have worked on several apps in the store now, with a few rejections for very good reasons (crashes or bad UI issues) but again were in the store after those issues were fixed.

I agree the emulators in the store are tame compared to well, MAME, but I don't really know any jailbreakers where that is even a reason they jailbroke at all - that's why I laid out my list, I'm pretty sure those are the more fundamental reasons.