Android 2.2, or Froyo, will have full Adobe Flash support, said Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google, when speaking with the New York Times. Unfortunately, a release date of Froyo did not accompany that revelation. What did however was Andy’s reaction to the iPhone 4G leak debacle…He was asked what he would do if a prototype Android device or the Google Phone was found in a bar, “I’d be happy if that happened and someone wrote about it. With openness comes less secrets”. Great news…we’re all for that!
With so much openness going around, Andy Rubin did not feel any qualms openly comparing Apple Inc. to North Korea – because of their closed platform policies and censorship of many (read: not just porn) apps in the App Store, Apple essentially tells you what you cannot have or do. “When they can’t have something, people [customers] do care. Look at the way politics work. I just don’t want to live in North Korea.”
Continuing the open trend, Andy Rubin also spoke of how Android would never get closed as a platform, and how they share everything with their developers: “There are no secret APIs…Open is open and we live by our own [open] implementations.”