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Samsung have a lot of money, and a lot of resources to through behind making their software work better. I find it hard to believe that is that hard to get righ

Samsung have a lot of money, and a lot of resources to through behind making their software work better. I find it hard to believe that is that hard to get right. If they had any sense they should buy BB or Palm OS.

czhiddy 14y ago
Software is hard. Any company where you can ship production code with all of physical memory mmap'able world-readable/writable (Exynos Android 4.0 vulnerability) points to a seriously flawed software engineering culture.
- deweerdt 14y ago
  I thought this was more due to the 'embedded' culture. After all, under VxWorks, isn't all memory addressable by all processes?
  - neckbeard 14y ago
    That's ancient VxWorks (sadly still shipping in some places, however). More recent VxWorks - i.e. anything 6.x, since 2004 - has memory protection.
    - deweerdt 14y ago
      He, it's been a while. Thanks for the correction.
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yoshamano 14y ago
LG already bought webOS and all the other Palm goodies from HP back in Feb. http://www.webosnation.com/lg-purchasing-hps-webos-division-licensing-webos-smart-tvs http://www.webosnation.com/lg-purchasing-hps-webos-division-... They're going to use it as the basis for a new line of "smart" TVs. I still have my fingers crossed that OpenWebOS makes a usable phone to replace my Pre2.
- mbetter 14y ago
  I personally consider the Pre2 the high-water mark for smartphones.
znowi 14y ago
A lot of people don't remember Palm OS, but as someone who owned a Palm TX device, I have most fond memories of it. And I still consider it the best handheld device that I had (including my current Nexus 4) in terms of both design and UI, and user control, and battery life, which lasted up to a week! It was a real bummer to see it go. I still miss it.
- aidenn0 14y ago
  I lost my Android phone, so am currently using my wife's old centro. It's amazing how many things it does as well or better than the android phone did (battery life being the biggest one).
  - znowi 14y ago
    You may want to check one of those "lost/stolen Android" apps for your next Android. They allow you to control device remotely, find out GPS location, erase SD card, etc. Quite useful.

czhiddy 14y ago

Software is hard. Any company where you can ship production code with all of physical memory mmap'able world-readable/writable (Exynos Android 4.0 vulnerability) points to a seriously flawed software engineering culture.

deweerdt 14y ago
I thought this was more due to the 'embedded' culture. After all, under VxWorks, isn't all memory addressable by all processes?
- neckbeard 14y ago
  That's ancient VxWorks (sadly still shipping in some places, however). More recent VxWorks - i.e. anything 6.x, since 2004 - has memory protection.
  - deweerdt 14y ago
    He, it's been a while. Thanks for the correction.
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yoshamano 14y ago

LG already bought webOS and all the other Palm goodies from HP back in Feb. http://www.webosnation.com/lg-purchasing-hps-webos-division-licensing-webos-smart-tvs http://www.webosnation.com/lg-purchasing-hps-webos-division-... They're going to use it as the basis for a new line of "smart" TVs. I still have my fingers crossed that OpenWebOS makes a usable phone to replace my Pre2.

mbetter 14y ago
I personally consider the Pre2 the high-water mark for smartphones.

znowi 14y ago

A lot of people don't remember Palm OS, but as someone who owned a Palm TX device, I have most fond memories of it. And I still consider it the best handheld device that I had (including my current Nexus 4) in terms of both design and UI, and user control, and battery life, which lasted up to a week! It was a real bummer to see it go. I still miss it.

aidenn0 14y ago
I lost my Android phone, so am currently using my wife's old centro. It's amazing how many things it does as well or better than the android phone did (battery life being the biggest one).
- znowi 14y ago
  You may want to check one of those "lost/stolen Android" apps for your next Android. They allow you to control device remotely, find out GPS location, erase SD card, etc. Quite useful.