Interesting Comment Regarding Blur and Manufacturer Android Releases
Q: Since Motoblur is put on top of Android 2.1, will there be a delay in getting Froyo on it, or is it already in the works?<p>Sanjay: We will upgrade this to Froyo in the late summer. We've been diligent about that.<p>Andy: As i mentioned, we just open-sourced it today. That's when everybody says, "Go!". That just happened today.<p>------------------------------------<p>We already know that manufacturers have early access to the source, least of all because very functional Froyo Moto-engineering builds have leaked out to lucky Droid users, besides the fact that this is just information that Google has acknowledged in the past.<p>Considering that koush <i>just</i> tweeted that Froyo is already building out of box, I simply don't understand what takes Motorola/HTC so long. I understand there is red tape, I understand it has to be released with an even higher level of polish than CM's releases.<p>I find Rubin's response a bit dishonest and Sanjay's particularly non-responsive to the question. I just hope that Gingerbread brings a proper UI API that will allow Motorola/HTC to just drop these on top of Android (3.0?) rather than having to spend engineering and testing time to integrate it into Android.