Re: [android-developers] why is gingerbread unpopular?

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Allen Curtis <ajcurtis84@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see lots of devices being shipped with Froyo. There are lots of tables announced with the future honeycomb version.
>
> Why aren't vendors delivering products with gingerbread?

Gingerbread has only been available for a couple of months. It takes
more time than that for a device manufacturer to get that OS into the
pipeline for new products. This is no different than with any other
Android release. I would expect more products to ship with Android 2.3
in the second quarter of 2011.

Some device manufacturers, notably tablet makers, elected to put their
products on hold, waiting for Honeycomb. Since fewer tablets will have
telephony capability, these *might* come to market a tad faster than
their phone brethren, but I am still not expecting all those CES
tablets to ship until the second half of 2011.

Each Android release seems to have one device manufacturer that is
working hand-in-glove with Google for that release. That
manufacturer's devices will ship with the newer OS faster than anyone
else. For example, Samsung worked with Google on Gingerbread, leading
to the Nexus S. Motorola is working with Google on Honeycomb, leading
to the XOOM (which really feels like it needs more O's, like
XOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, but that's another story). And so on.

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