i shouldn't even be replying to this... momma always said if you don't got anything nice to say... don't say anything at all...
anyway, don't like the condescending tone of your reply, I understand exactly what you said... [...]
No, that's perfectly okay. I guess all this is indeed caused by cultural differences. In Germany, it is quite common to actually tell the other whenever you might not be able to do something, or whenever you think that someone else is doing something wrong. Seen from an American perspective, Germans tend to complain all the time. But that's for a reason, because in the end it's better for everyone. Actually, I meant to help you with my previous post, so that you are able to head your request into the right direction (as opposed to me not writing anything at all anymore because you stopped being productive).
the way I'm reading his post, it sounds like he's making it seem like he's talking to a moron... that's condecending in my book, it might be just be I'm making a mountian out of a mole hill.. if so I appologize for the remark about it sounding condecending.
I'm sorry for that, it wasn't my intention to imply that anyone reading it is stupid. I'm just trying to make my posts idiot-proof, because leaving much room for interpretation is not particularly efficient when trying to explain something. In addition,
I generally don't trade (clarity and potential benefit for people reading) for (comfort for me) so that I can be lazy, as I despise laziness.
[...] nothing that you're spouting is convincing me that it is a good or bad idea, no arguments... just you basically feel different about android... on a almost spiritual level, nothing about how it would or wouldn't work... [...] you think android is piece of crap rip off of another os, don't waist your time
Had you read and understood my all posts in their entirety then you'd know that I DO think that Android is "
a nice thing". But not as a main OS that the Pandora is actively being advertised and/or offered with.
I most certainly won't port it because I don't like Android too much. However, I know that both, being a fanboy of something and hating something to death, is just plain stupid. For instance, I have good reasons to hate the Playstation Portable, but I'm aware that this doesn't mean that the potential successors must also be bad (also, I'm using a Sony Walkman (no, not that cassette player, they name their current MP3 players "Walkman" too) as my main music player).
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I got $50 USD in the kitty for what I'm asking for
Well, as tsh said it's (probably, I haven't had any look at this at all) not that easy to make a stable, fully working Android for the Pandora. Besides, presumably no Pandora hacker would do this for money (or at least not go into that big amount of potential hassle for so little as a fixed 50$, and - I guess unlike you believe - a first running version is not an indicator for how much work is needed to make everything work fine), because there currently are many interesting things to do around the Pandora. Android currently is not exactly fitting the Pandora as good as the custom Angstrom is. You will have to bring in good arguments to actually convince somebody to start porting Android soon.
Writing that you just want to vent instead of seriously discussing is not particularly helpful in this regard.
I asked "why won't this work?" from a technical perspective... nobody has given an answer. Windows, OSX, any other piece of crap closed source software I've seen talked into the ground on why it can't be done... now something popular... something more than just some app from the 90's that everyone grew up with.... something new that CAN be done.... nobody wants to do it.
From a technical perspective, it would most certainly be possible to make it run nicely, and that's why so few are talking about it being technically possible or not. But as you said, that doesn't really matter right now, as currently nobody (publicly) attempts to do it.
EDIT: I've been thinking, I can't think of anywhere other than in this forum to ask for this port. Is there a better place I'm just not seeing? I know where I would take this port to get it worked on in addition to working on it myself... but I know of no other good place to start with this than right here.
Here's a (incomplete) list of things you can do to make the right people actually pay attention to your request:
- Show that you also are willing to put effort into this (e.g. by discussing productively; As opposed to just wanting others to do the work for you) and, even more importantly, bring good arguments for why it's important to port Android soon.
- Learn how to do it yourself (you obviously already are paying attention to your own request, so make yourself the right person)
- Hire a software developer
Other than that, I think you might benefit (not only on this topic) from reading
The Jargon File to better understand this hackerish way of thinking.
