Comments on: T-Mobile Blur One http://phandroid.com/2009/10/09/t-mobile-blur-one/ Android Phone News, Rumors, Reviews, Apps, Forums & More! Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:51:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sammysunset http://phandroid.com/2009/10/09/t-mobile-blur-one/#comment-50899 sammysunset Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:12:59 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=5963#comment-50899 I'm sure Motorola will be shutting this down very soon. In the mean time, I have an honest question -- why aren't we seeing more and more custom Android builds? I know that these other, legitimate distributions (HTC Sense, MotoBlur, etc.) can use proprietary Google Apps, so why aren't we seeing more custom, full builds of Android with kick ass features? Why aren't there any builds, yet, that rely heavily on OpenGL? Where is the innovation? Cryogen mods are really, really cool... but, essentially, they're just tweaks of the standard Google ROM to improve functionality and put more features in the hands of the users. Which, again, is awesome... but ultimately, I'm waiting to see more open (and, to borrow a phrase from the old Duke Nukem / Doom days), Total Conversion ROM's that will knock everyone's socks off. I'm sure it'd be easy to get Google to agree to the use of their proprietary apps, considering these major corporations are able to do so. I'm eager for the future. I’m sure Motorola will be shutting this down very soon.

In the mean time, I have an honest question — why aren’t we seeing more and more custom Android builds? I know that these other, legitimate distributions (HTC Sense, MotoBlur, etc.) can use proprietary Google Apps, so why aren’t we seeing more custom, full builds of Android with kick ass features?

Why aren’t there any builds, yet, that rely heavily on OpenGL? Where is the innovation?

Cryogen mods are really, really cool… but, essentially, they’re just tweaks of the standard Google ROM to improve functionality and put more features in the hands of the users. Which, again, is awesome… but ultimately, I’m waiting to see more open (and, to borrow a phrase from the old Duke Nukem / Doom days), Total Conversion ROM’s that will knock everyone’s socks off.

I’m sure it’d be easy to get Google to agree to the use of their proprietary apps, considering these major corporations are able to do so. I’m eager for the future.

]]> By: twrock http://phandroid.com/2009/10/09/t-mobile-blur-one/#comment-50852 twrock Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:31:55 +0000 http://phandroid.com/?p=5963#comment-50852 (Does this mean the site is back up and running?) So I'm thinking it's increasingly likely that more ROM modders and the websites that host those ROMs are going to be getting C&D letters. It's one thing for HTC to turn a blind eye to people "upgrading" their HTC phones with the latest HTC ROMs (hey, it's all "in house" anyway, right?). But it's hard to imagine Motorola ignoring the Cliq ROM being distributed for use on other manufacturers' devices, prior to the product launch, and then have those phones creating MotoBlur accounts on top of it. So if this all comes back to bite the "community", I hope people don't get all in a huff and scream and swear and threaten to leave Android for the iPhone and other such foolishness. Seems to me that this kind of "in your face" activity is going to have some consequences. After the whole CyanogenMod craziness a couple of weeks ago, no one should be surprised if Moto gets a little steamed about this, and no one should be trying to claim they didn't know. (Does this mean the site is back up and running?)
So I’m thinking it’s increasingly likely that more ROM modders and the websites that host those ROMs are going to be getting C&D letters. It’s one thing for HTC to turn a blind eye to people “upgrading” their HTC phones with the latest HTC ROMs (hey, it’s all “in house” anyway, right?). But it’s hard to imagine Motorola ignoring the Cliq ROM being distributed for use on other manufacturers’ devices, prior to the product launch, and then have those phones creating MotoBlur accounts on top of it. So if this all comes back to bite the “community”, I hope people don’t get all in a huff and scream and swear and threaten to leave Android for the iPhone and other such foolishness. Seems to me that this kind of “in your face” activity is going to have some consequences. After the whole CyanogenMod craziness a couple of weeks ago, no one should be surprised if Moto gets a little steamed about this, and no one should be trying to claim they didn’t know.

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