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CyanogenMod 9 Working On the Nexus S
MrSeb writes with an article in Extreme Tech about progress toward getting an AOSP build working on the Nexus S. From the article: "Over the past week, ROM Manager extraordinaire Koush has been frantically working on making a working build of CyanogenMod 9 (Ice Cream Sandwich) for the Samsung Nexus S. The custom ROM, which is built purely from the Android Open Source Project, has now reached 'alpha 11.' All major features are present and no significant bugs remain. It's too early to say that the build is ready for prime time or mission-critical work — the final release of CM9 is due in the new year — but it's certainly stable enough for daily use. The most significant feature, if you can call it that, is that Koush's build of ICS is really very smooth — it's as nimble as Gingerbread, if not more so. Unlike the previous, non-CM build that was released last week, this alpha build of CM9 has every feature enabled, including Google Wallet, and setting a mobile data limit. As usual, the custom ROM is pre-rooted, has ROM Manager installed, and absolutely no bloatware. "
I don't want to sideload it, I want it running as the host OS and able to make phone calls. Is this hard to understand?
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Are you kidding me? Open source zealots like you give open source a bad name and by your philosophy the mobile device space would be a mirror of the desktop space where only people interested in self flagellation run Linux as their sole desktop OS due to the endless limitations and issues you have to deal with gaining nothing in return.
It is incredible that Google are willing to give away the source code for free, and it may actually kill Android in the tablet arena if Amazon's devices gain ground. The Kindle Fire is going to get a lot better and Amazon are releasing bigger Kindle tablets next year. Look at the original e-ink Kindle to see how Amazon work, it was an awful and ugly device, compare that to the Kindle Touch.
In which dream world do you live if you think Microsoft or Apple or HP or any other major IT company in the world would give away not just their operating system, but the source code as well? And Google get criticized for that??
Do you for one moment stop and think how wonderful it is that the most popular operating system in smartphones is open source, and you can endlessly modify it or use innumerable open source ROMs and software, while still retaining compatibility with a vast library of applications.
Without Google the smartphone OS space would be dominated by Microsoft and Apple with some token miniscule market share to n900 like devices for people like you.
Why are Google the only company that are always criticized from a utopian perspective?