I had the nexus one, just returned it (tmobile is horrible, and I’m in southern California). The 3D drawer was sluggish on 3 nexus ones i have played with. i have Droid now and the drawer is much snappier. i hope the 3D version stays on the N1.

Really? I’ve been running 2.1 for a while now, since before N1 came out. And I never noticed the app drawer be sluggish.

Oh! Super.

Go motorola! Make my phone prettier.

Uhhh I believe you’re operating under the assumption that Google actually releases the updates that are particular to certain phones which is NOT the case. It’s up to either the manufacturer or service provider to update THEIR version of the OS with updated device drivers or any network-specific modifications that are needed

I had 2.1 running on my Droid for a time. While it was obviously not an optimized version, one of the main reasons I went back to the vanilla 2.0 ROM was how much of a resource hog the new app launcher was. Sure, it looks cool the first few times you run it, but I’d go with functionality over flash any day. Could be that the amount of RAM available on the Droid simply isn’t up to the task.

The new app drawer is pretty much the only reason I want 2.1. Couldn’t really care less about the other “features”.

Surely holding it N1 exclusive is further damaging to manufacturer relationships..
“Not only will updates be slower to your phones, but we’re keeping them one step behind too because we want the N1 to have more pull with potential customers”!

I believe the 3D app drawer is a Nexus One exclusive, and perhaps a permanent one: the 2.1 version of the emulator used to test android application development doesn’t have it either.

Though one could perhaps make the case that because the emulator drains enough resources without it, most pc’s simply wouldn’t be able to handle it and thus it has been “turned off”.