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by biafra 16y ago
I am with you here. The manufacturers should not be allowed to call their phones open if they lock the bootloader so you cannot install unsigned images. But Android as a platform is still open. The same way that Linux is still open.
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by biafra 16y ago
Both are permissive.
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by biafra 16y ago
The easiest way to find one depending on your location might be ebay. There are a lot of new & unused N1s on ebay.de and ebay.com
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by biafra 16y ago
The Nexus One is a consumer product. You do not have to be a developer to buy it nor is it special developer hardware. Those other devices are still closed because people still buy them. Vote with your wallets and you will have freedom.
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by biafra 16y ago
Thats a philosophical question. Which is more open? GPLv3 or Apache/BSD license? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_and_GPL_licensing#Permissiv...
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by biafra 16y ago
So Linux is not considered open anymore because you cannot install your own modified version on your Tivo?
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by biafra 16y ago
Yes. Last example: Angry Birds It wasn't in the Market at first. And many seem to do it since getjar.com was down some hours after Rovio announced via twitter that you could get it there. I host pre-beta versions of my Apps on my own serve
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by biafra 16y ago
Apple could be much more open with iOS and at the same time be not less integrated. How does the whole AppStore policy make iOS more integrated? When I am criticizing Apple for iOS not being open I mean it is not open to run any application
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by biafra 16y ago
"...or given me any more control over my Droid X..." Why did you buy the wrong phone? It was all over the news, that Motorola locks down the bootloader. How is that Googles fault? How does that make Android less open? What about all those L
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by biafra 16y ago
You have all that freedom with Android. You have the control over your device with Android. You don't have it on every device. But how is this Googles fault? Android is so open it can be closed down by anyone. But there are Phones that are
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by biafra 16y ago
You mean: You can't deploy your altered version to any device Assuming you did not break it while altering. Then you can always deploy your altered version to the ADP-Phones. For example the Nexus One. And this is not a theoretical possibil
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by biafra 16y ago
I use the maven-android-plugin to build the dependencies in seperate modules. I have a patched version of bouncycastles crypto implementation (to have openpgp in android). Then there is the network code which also contains no android depend
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by biafra 16y ago
I use the emulator for continuous integration. Its really helpful for unit- and integration-testing. Combine it with Robotium and you can thoroughly test you application across screen sizes and Android OS Versions.
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by biafra 16y ago
As a development phone the Nexus One is the best choice. You can unlock the bootloader and install Android from source after that.
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by biafra 16y ago
You can get it from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Archos-Home-Tablet-Android-Black/dp/B0...
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by biafra 16y ago
How can one more market fix your problem with too many markets? The Android Market by Google is not as good as it could be. So it is good that there is the possibility of more markets. The market will decide who survives and who will not. A
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by biafra 16y ago
I am currently working on a pgp encryped version of latitude. Right now its not even alpha although some of my geekier friends already use it. Its crpto is based on bouncycastles openpgp implementation. On the server side I use google app e
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by biafra 16y ago
I'd also like to have something similar like Droid Wall for guarding the positioning information an app can get. I would like to whitelist certain applications who get accurate GPS and celltower positionig information. Others should get on
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by biafra 16y ago
Wikileaks answer: "Spiegel report Schmitt resigned which is misleading. Schmitt was suspended a month ago." https://twitter.com/wikileaks/statuses/25487043751
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by biafra 16y ago
I cannot see it in the Market. And the direct link inside the market does not work also. Is it somehow limited to only a few countries? I am in Germany, I have Froyo on two phone ith Market and the old gmail. One is Cyanogen on a Milestone
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by biafra 16y ago
Wrong. I installed all the updates on my Milestone after downloading them from the Motorola website. Mostly because OTA didn't work for me. And on my Nexus One I built Froyo myself from source and use it ever since. How do I do that with a
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by biafra 16y ago
"Users that want to speak with their wallets will use iPhone where such problems do not exist." Or they could buy another Android phone were such problems do not exist. But the sad thing is: I do not think that they care enough...
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by biafra 16y ago
That's the good thing about choice. By buying an Nexus One (or an ADP1) you can do all that without _any_ hassle. That choice is not available with any iOS-device as of now.
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by biafra 16y ago
The Droid was definitely not the high watermark for openness. The ADP1 and the Nexus One were and are. The Droid (aka Milestone in the GSM world) was the first really successful Android phone though.
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by biafra 16y ago
"Android is only free of carrier abuse if you're geeky enough." Or if your carriers behave. In most parts of the world they do nowadays.
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by biafra 16y ago
And you can in the US? What other phones can be updated without manufacturer support? Even for the ADP1(G1) and the N1 you need some binary-only files from HTC. I was successful in building Froyo for my N1. Not so much for the ADP1. (No GSM
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by biafra 16y ago
To me all those problems with carriers dictating anything looks like a US-only problem. You can fix this! Just buy more unlocked phones. Since 1994 I never bought a net locked phone. Subsidizing does not have to be linked to a net lock. Sub
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Motorola's Android 2.2 Rollout: What a Mess(pcworld.com)
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by biafra 16y ago
"We already trust polling place workers with paper ballots, the possibility for fraud already exists." I don't know about the US, but here in Germany _anyone_ can watch the whole process including the counting of the votes. So it is possibl
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by biafra 16y ago
scp is a lot slower than the tar-pipe with many small files.

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