Google’s Andy Rubin: Nothing Has Changed With Android’s Openness

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It's about a week late, but Google's Android head Andy Rubin has finally responded in a blog post to claims that the platform is becoming less open — as Google reportedly takes a stronger hand in how manufacturers use Android and delays the availability of Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" to smaller developers.

Rubin's defense of Android's open source status is to be expected since it's one of Android's biggest advantages over Apple's closed iOS platform.

Rubin stresses that Google is operating the same way it always has with Android: It remains committed to releasing the platform's source code when it's ready, and he says that Google is following the "anti-fragmentation" program that has been put in place since the very first version of Android.

"We don't believe in a 'one size fits all' solution," he wrote, referring to the massive amount of device types and form factors that Android now supports.

Rubin goes on to say that the Android team is still working on bringing Honeycomb's features to phones, and that its code will be released to the community once that happens. "This temporary delay does not represent a change in strategy. We remain firmly committed to providing Android as an open source platform across many device types," he said.

Tags: Android, iOS, Open source, platforms

Companies: Apple, Google

People: Andy Rubin

By ERICA GOODE 07 Apr, 2011

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Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=92c15acf6e562a16144961ce58359b53
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