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Surely it was scheduled for inclusion previous to the M7's announcement 6 weeks ago.

• mikeyouse 13y ago
  Surely it was, but 'rumor' sites were writing about the dedicated movement processor in late August (at a minimum of 10 weeks ago) and I'm sure there are enough moles at either company so that Google / Apple know what their competitors will do several months in advance. * * * Late Edit * * * So I looked through the Google public Git repo, and it looks like the initial Step_Counter functions were added in Dec 2012.[1] The hardware must've been wrapped more than 6 weeks ago, so I was probably wrong. Google must've been working on this for months ahead of time. [1]https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/libhardware/+/a455772 https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/libhardwa...
  • lnanek2 13y ago
    I doubt Google has anything to do with the hardware for this. Qualcomm has been pushing movement tracking and user context recognition using sensors with their chips without using a lot of power at conferences for over a year now. This is probably just Google throwing in a cut down version of their Pivot functionality. It's basically a chipset feature, just like how the chipsets are who pushes the OpenGL ES drivers and demos each version.
  • markdown 13y ago
    > Surely it was, but 'rumor' sites were writing about the dedicated movement processor in late August A corporation of Google's size doesn't need "rumour sites" to know what their competitors are doing.
• jolohaga 13y ago
  If you say so.