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To: DanD who wrote (92427)	2/22/2010 11:14:03 AM
From: rnsmth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

< And an issue that will have to be addressed by the open source community.> That has worked really well for Linux :)

To: DanD who wrote (92427)	2/22/2010 11:28:09 AM
From: Stock Puppy	Respond to of 213177

Also Google Android strategy seems, at least to me, not to be to sell phones, but to make it's server services available to a larger market. Driving the cost of smartphones down accomplishes this for them. Quite insightful.

To: DanD who wrote (92427)	2/22/2010 2:46:23 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Android is no different than the iPhone. There are very many different software versions of iPhone out there still being used. And even the hardware has changed (digital compass, GPS, video etc...). Android is no different. But it is very easy for a programmer to query the software version his app runs on and either enable certain features or disable certain features or tell the user that his app requires certain version or higher. I see nothing unusual about that.