Google's Android strategy triggers infighting and potential defections from developers

August 13 News, according to foreign media reports, Google left the impression that people will never do the wrong thing, but on the Android platform strategy, this good impression may be broken.

Some of Google's actions could permanently undermine its relationship with developers, including restricting developers from acquiring core development tools, as Android is about to be publicly released on the open source mobile platform. They will be disappointed and disillusioned even if they are not compromised by developers.

The Android development community has about 2000 developers, according to Androidguys, a third-party Android blog site. Many of these developers say they will switch to other mobile platforms.

Android developer Mike Novak said: "It is wrong for Google not to value the development community." Developers are the main drivers of Android apps, and Android is hard to build on in the marketplace without developers. ”

Another Android developer, Casey Borders, said Google needed to keep developers loyal and attract more developers to support Android. Borders said: "Android platform has a strong foundation, the potential is good, but the competition is not small." ”

Developers are largely dissatisfied with Google's policy on the Android Software Development Kit (SDK). Google announced last month that the latest SDK is only available to the top 50 developers of the "Android Developer Challenge" competition.

Last November, Google and more than 30 industry companies set up the Open Mobile Phone Alliance (OHA) to jointly develop the Android open source mobile platform, to fight the mobile phone to create powerful mobile computers. Handset products based on the Android platform are expected to go public by the end of the year.

There have been reports of "architectural problems" on the Android platform, so mobile phones based on the platform could be postponed until 2009.