The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[G.Irish]

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how Google has called Android "open source" Ive always thought was horseshit in actual implementation. Im glad Amazon has turned around and stuck it up their ass

How so? Honeycomb is the only version of Android that hasn't been open sourced. If Android weren't open source, Amazon would not have been able to use it as the base to build their tablet. Amazon certainly couldn't have taken iOS, webOS, or QNX to build a tablet. Not for free anyway. And it's not like Google even lifted a finger to try to stop the Amazon Appstore in any way. Anyone who owns an Android device can use either app store. And if anyone else wants to start an Android app store, they could too.

Google hasn't managed Android the same way a typical FOSS project is run, but "open source" doesn't mean that you have to run it a certain way. It just means anyone can download the source code and do what they want with it. With the exception of Honeycomb, that's just what Android is.

Amazon's end run around the closed source of Honeycomb really just means Amazon didn't want to wait for Ice Cream Sandwich to drop. Doesn't seem like a big deal to me :dunno: