Google's Android Platform: Not So Open After All

July 17, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Google vowed that its Linux-based Android mobile platform would empower enthusiasts and amateur developers, but today we have seen compelling evidence that this is an empty promise. Third-party Android application developers, who have grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of SDK updates, were shocked to discover that Google has been secretly making new versions of the Android SDK available to the Android Developer Challenge finalists under nondisclosure agreements.

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Tagged with: Android, Android Developer Challenge, Ars Technica, Google, Linux, Ryan Paul

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