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   by biafra 16y ago

   Maybe Google was hoping some other "market app" would take over and get adopted by handset makers or carriers. It's not googles core business to sell apps worldwide. There are a lot of other market apps out there.
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   by biafra 16y ago

   Google could provide (paid) update services for handset makers or carriers. The incentive for those to pay for this service would be that those devices would be much more attractive for customers. As a consumer I would be willing to pay mor
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   by biafra 16y ago

   I think the problem with sense ui is not so much the apps but the time HTC needs to upgrade to the latest Android release on their phones.
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   by biafra 16y ago

   You can find a hackerspace near you here: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
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   Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks(daringfireball.net)

   357 points by biafra 16y ago|113 comments
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   by biafra 16y ago

   The current record as of wednesday night is 38 Android phones in one matrix at a time: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lischke/4643707379/in/photostre... http://yfrog.com/5squ9z There will be more video footage soon.
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   Ecosystem of Screens: Blinkendroid Makes Personal Phones More Sociable(mobilebehavior.com)

   2 points by biafra 16y ago|1 comments
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   by biafra 16y ago

   It can be found here: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-...
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   by biafra 16y ago

   Or you can use a qr-code bookmarklet and use "Barcode Scanner" to get it into your Android phone.
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    by biafra 16y ago

    But I can blame them for not allowing unsigned Apps on the iPhone/iPad and criminalizing jailbreaking.
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    by biafra 16y ago

    32bit Windows only.
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    by biafra 16y ago

    I have seen this Story here [dead] at least 7 times (with a link from gawker.com). Were they all duplicates? If so, how do find the comments page to the first submission?
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    Berlin Buzzwords 2010 scalability conference(berlinbuzzwords.de)

    1 points by biafra 16y ago|0 comments
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    by biafra 16y ago

    DENIC explanation: http://www.denic.de/typo3temp/pics/i_64bbbffdb3.jpg
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    by biafra 16y ago

    Since in your eyes the iPhone is the _first_ smart phone that qualifies for "any levels of success" it is of course the most open. I think several smart phones were successful (at least in europe) and had a more open development environment
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    by biafra 16y ago

    If HTML5 is the fallback why is it working so bad on the iPad? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4
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    Secret iPhone pawner stays one step ahead of Apple Gestapo(culturemap.com)

    0 points by biafra 17y ago|0 comments
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    by biafra 17y ago

    He is implying it could be compatible: "Flash’s cross-compiler, we know, is explicitly ruled out by the new Section 3.3.1. Where MonoTouch stands, however, is not yet clear." Or isn't he? How is Flash explicitly ruled out and C# is not?
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    by biafra 17y ago

    "MonoTouch is not in the same boat as Flash’s iPhone compiler, as it’s not a cross-platform framework." Did Gruber read Section 3.3.1? It says: "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by th
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    by biafra 17y ago

    "...the AirLife 100 is ready to operate on the network of any U.S. carrier that chooses to subsidize the device. " Does it really have to be subsidized by a carrier to run there?
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    by biafra 17y ago

    I really do not care about Flash. What I care about is the freedom to use any programming language that I like or see fit for the problem at hand. Section 3.3.1 is not only banning Flash although that would be wrong too. It bans _every_ oth
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    by biafra 17y ago

    I agree, but only if Apple allows unsigned apps on the iPhone. Then its a matter of taste & money. Money that I would be willing to spend if I owned the phone after purchasing it, like I own my MacBook Pro. My hope is that Android is so
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    by biafra 17y ago

    I have such a clause in my contract too. I think this is only becoming a problem at all when they want to get rid of you. As long as they want you, it would be very stupid to enforce this since your productivity could go way down when they
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    by biafra 17y ago

    What's most interesting to me is how the security of GSM will hold when GSM stacks in mobile phones can finally be tinkered with. OpenBTS provides the opportunity to program and test your own baseband software. Think about fuzzing GSM tower
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    by biafra 17y ago

    If you happen to have your BTS talk to the AT&T infrastructure: Yes
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    by biafra 17y ago

    You have to get a license to do that. At the "Hacking at Random" and the last "Chaos Communication Congress" we had "testing" licenses with restrictions about signal strength and height above ground for installing the BTSes.
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    by biafra 17y ago

    I think it's ok to limit how many iPads you may buy for the time period when they are scarce. But banning him from buying another iPad for _life_ ist just ridiculous.
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    by biafra 17y ago

    If this is true then Oracle is about to kill "Oracle Java". Let's see how the open source alternatives keep going after that. Will IBM take over, or Google? I do not think Oracle will do this. No way!
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    by biafra 17y ago

    I just bought both. The Good Parts to wet my appetite for JavaScript and the Definitive Guide to have a (hopefully) complete language reference.
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    by biafra 17y ago

    I am with you on this one. No iPhone/iPad for me and I try talk anyone out of it if I think they do not know yet what the AppStore-necessity means for customers and developers. But I would still recommend Macs until Apple decides to make an