bl4gator: Eric Schmidt not big on Ice Cream Sandwich name, says it's coming Oct./Nov.

Τετάρτη 7 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011

Eric Schmidt not big on Ice Cream Sandwich name, says it's coming Oct./Nov.

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The best part about Eric Schmidt's brief -- and we do mean brief ... almost in passing -- mention of Ice Cream Sandwich at the Salesforce Dreamforce 2011 keynote isn't that he says it'll be out sometime in October/November. That's a time frame that should surprise no one, and really doesn't divulge anything, no matter how many times you parse it. Instead, it's the disdain Papa Schmidt has for the ICS nickname that's the real juicy nugget, albeit a minor real juicy nugget. Check it out in the video above. The transcript doesn't do it justice. You can hear him rolling his eyes.

We pretty much feel the same way, though. Froyo was gold for a headline writer. Gingerbread, eh, we can live with it. Ice Cream Sandwich is somebody getting back at us. Yeah, we're taking it personally.

Anyhoo, here's what Schmidt had to say:

"We have a new operating system, internally known as 'Ice Cream Sandwich' for some reason, which is being released in October-November, which everybody is very excited about."

So it's coming sometime in October or November. Maybe late October. Or maybe early October. Or maybe early November. Or maybe late November. Possibly in the middle of one month, or in the middle of the other. Parse it all you want. Dude said "October-November." And with that, we're going to have a cheeseburger.

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