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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 03:06 AM EDT |
Honeycomb was the first Android tablet version, and was
heavily rushed due to competitive pressures.
The source code wasn't released, but Google worked with
several manufacturers to make products (Motorola and Samsung
amongst others.) I'm not sure if the source close was
released to partner companies, but it created controversy
that source code was unavailable to customers.
The source code for honeycomb was subsequently "released"
when ICS was, due to it being part of the source control
history in the public android repository. IIRC it was
released without tags (making it harder to find and use) ,
along with a specific request that people not use it, as it
had been superceded by more reliable, better code in ICS.
I speculate that the HC code was initially not released as
it was low quality and to prevent a slew of cheap
manufactured devices which would never be updated by
manufacturers- ie. an attempt to get products out without
polluting the ecosystem long term. Presumably the partner
agreements they had with the few manufacturers specified
upgrade terms and they knew ICS would be along shortly to
fix up the issues.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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