Google's Andy Rubin Denies Android Lock-Down

Android lead Andy Rubin has challenged rumors that Google is locking down the OS, taking towards the official Android Developers weblog to deny that there continues to be “a alter in strategy” in the way it offers with OEMs, modifications, or hardware. “Our method stays unchanged: you will find no lock-downs or restrictions from customizing UIs” Rubin insists. “There aren't, and in no way have already been, any efforts to standardize the platform on any single chipset architecture.”

Speak of the far more stringent strategy to Android modification broke final week, with insiders claiming Google had started to prioritize vendors who would concur to not modify the OS or its UI. The so-called “anti-fragmentation clauses,” Rubin says, have nevertheless been in location considering that Android 1.0, as well as the only demands Google can make is the fact that producers maintain to specific core specs if they desire to use Google’s very own apps.


As for Honeycomb and also the release with the Android 3.0 supply code, Rubin says that “the Android group is nevertheless tough at function to carry all of the new Honeycomb functions to phones” and that “as quickly as this function is finished, we’ll publish the code.”

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