Android Honeycomb Will Not Be Open Sourced

At the ongoing Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Google today officially announced the next version of Android, named Ice Cream Sandwich, as well as Android 3.1, an "incremental platform release" of Honeycomb. An anonymous reader writes "In an effort to understand the landscape for developers, Andy Rubin was asked if, since Ice Cream Sandwich would be open, Android 3.0 and/or 3.1 will be granted the same courtesy. Rubin answered definitively in the negative. Honeycomb on its own would not be open, because its phone functionality is very broken. Ice Cream Sandwich will take all of the Honeycomb functionality and open source it alongside code that is much more universally friendly."

Comments

Re:editors already asleep?

[Anonymous Coward]

hide behind your chosen pseudonym some more feeb
you're completely pathetic

Gump

[jvillain]

Google open source is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.

Re:Embarrassment rather than dislike of open sourc

[93 Escort Wagon]

At least Honeycomb won't make it onto this.

Shut up before Viewsonic interprets your post as a challenge!