Google’s Matias Duarte Talks Honeycomb, Tablets, and the Future of Android

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It's 25 minutes long, and a bunch of it is the Engadget interviewing trying to goad him into insulting Android vendor's reskins but when he lets him actually speak there's some interesting info about Google's strategy.

For example, referring to the Nexus S as a "concept car" intended to advertise the engine they give away, and buttons (and other things) becoming optional in future Android versions to allow vendors to make their own decisions about what is best.

I don't think the goading was that bad. The skinning has been a real issue for Android, and (having been in a similar situation) you can't ask questions like that once and move on to another topic, otherwise you'll just get the response the PR team crafted. You need to dance around a bit and hope something more interesting comes out.

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