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Cupcake Bringing Video Recording, Stereo Bluetooth & More

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Apr 12, 2008
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One of the exciting elements of Android’s open souce nature is that, while we still love to guess, speculate and hypothesize what will come next - a lot of it unfolds before our very eyes. Thus is the case with Android’s Cupcake roadmap in the source code, revealing that video recording and stereo bluetooth, among [...]

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Why is it called cupcake? Please don't tell me because the update is SWEET... that's just a bad joke.

Google does quirky things like this in regards to naming their developments.

In regards to flash, I think there's going to need to be some integrations involved with the Webkit browser, so flash will ultimately come from adobe via google g1 update i think.
 
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A lot of "big" things have codenames. Most big ticket movies are initially called something completely random to avoid leaks. If I recall correctly, XP was originally called Dolphin. Sure they aren't being secretive about what's going on with it, but you get the idea.


there's that, but it's also true that companies sometimes come up with a concept, and begin working on it without a name. They give it some sort of ambiguous development name so that it can be referenced internally for simplicity, leaving room for marketing/PR to come up with the final name of the product. Names are also changed because the original/popular name didn't test well with focus groups.
 
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