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Why open code is irrelevant to Android’s success

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 2, 2011

“While Honeycomb code will be available to developers at partner
organizations, smaller shops will not be given access to the
tablet-optimized version of Android for the foreseeble future. Andy
Rubin, vice president of Android engineering at Google, explained
in a recent Bloomberg Business Week interview the trade-off that
led to the decision. ‘We didn’t want to think about what it would
take for the same software to run on phones,’ Rubin explains.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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