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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Google doesn't sell your data. Advertisers pay Google to deliver their ads to the demographic they want to target.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
This article seems to have gone through multiple edits to correct all of the incorrect technical facts, but it looks like they still have work to do. Shifting away from using Linux would help Google’s legal case that its software isn’t rel
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Google didn't even develop Android, they just picked it up and filled it to the brim with their software. What Google initially bought was no where near a commercially viable product and any remnants of that legacy code probably do
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
You neglected to mention that Microsoft employees reverse engineered the YouTube API's and then, for good measure, prevented ads from appearing in the app. They also had no permission to use someone else's IP. >All to keep WP f
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
I'm waiting for the day Alphabet removes Android from Google's umbrella and is expected to contribute to the bottom line. I wonder what they'll do to make that happen... You can either licence Android for a fee or a percentag
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Their hypocrisy? Apple says privacy is a human right yet they're complicit in exposing all of their users data to a Chinese state run company. If privacy is indeed a human right then don't operate data centers in China until the
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
I don't believe I've seen apps look like that since Android Cupcake. If you really want to build apps without using Java or the Android SDK you should look into Dart/Flutter.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>It was a calculated risk that had a handsome payoff, Yes, it payed off in marketshare, but severely limited the profitability of Android and being another major revenue stream for Google. I hope this decision makes them think twice abou
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>If Google "stopped licensing Android", most OEMs would fork it at least initiating. Every OEM release of Android is forked so your statement doesn't make sense. >Additionally, if Google were to move solely into the Pix
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Google doesn't need to stop licensing GMS to OEM's. They simply need to stop giving it away for free and start charging OEM's to license it. And the OEM's that do license it will, of course, pass on the expenses to the c
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
I'm glad the EU has fined Google 5 billion. It's finally going to make them reassess their Android open source strategy and hopefully come to the inevitable conclusion that open sourcing Android was a mistake. Hopefully, they don&
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Tons of malvertising comes through Google. Can you cite that as your previous accusation was already proven to be incorrect. >When one company owns the whole space, finding just one vulnerability is enormously economically attractive
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
According to a comment below the JavaScript originated from CNN and was likely used for debugging.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Do you have any proof that the ad was served by Google or are you just guessing? I was under the impression they had checks to prevent this.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
It now uses Intel's HAXM on Windows to increase performance tremendously. It also allows for the saving of snapshots to launch the emulator almost instantly.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Did I miss an announcement where those other competing browsers offered a solution that consumed no additional RAM? I can't recall any another browser maker introducing a change as encompassing as the Chrome Meltdown and Spectre fix.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
The Android ART GC doesn't cause "long pauses". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFE2Utbv1Oo
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Good to see Loon graduating into its own company. Project Loon was very instrumental in connecting Puerto Rico after the hurricane [1]. [1] https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/20/project-loon-att-puerto-...
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Still doesn't solve the core problem with the Android emulator - performance When was the last time you used the emulator?
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Project panama is only targeting c, and even then will only do it a cross platform non committal fashion John Rose of Oracle: Panama is not just about C headers. It is about building a framework in which any data+function schema of API
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Threatened with a blackout in China, they rolled over like an obedient lap-dog and quietly transitioned ALL iCloud-China related compute and storage to a government controlled cloud. The Chinese App Store generates 6-8 billion annually
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Since letting kids alone on youtube, is clusterf* of a nightmare, Could you have caked on more hyperbole? Yes, let's just let kids search the Internet and see what they come up with.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
There isn't anything going on with the exception of ignorance on the part of the WSJ, Forbes and The Verge. You're explicitly granting a third party app access to your email. If I decide to use Outlook for iOS or Android I'm
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Wait, are you saying if I install a third party app, like you know a third party email client, and give it explicit access to my Gmail account I'm giving it the ability to read my emails? The horror. This isn't journalism. It&#x27
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
I thought it was pretty clear. Google has no data centers in China which means they don't subject their users to unfettered government searches of their data.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
I must have missed the part where Google is letting state run Chinese companies run their data centers and sharing the data with the Chinese government. When that happens then Apple and Google will be on equal footing when it comes to China
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Actually, there is something Apple can do. They can start by not offering iCloud services in China. Sure, it would be an inconvenience for many, but at least they would be protecting the privacy of their users by not sharing their data with
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Your defense of Apple's cooperation with the Chinese government is repugnant. Apple could have easily decided not to open data centers in China if they really valued the privacy of their Chinese users. Tim Cook said that privacy is a
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
If your going to talk about abusing people's privacy then perhaps you should also mention how Apple abuses the privacy of their Chinese users by allowing the Chinese Government to have unfettered access to all of their cloud data.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Please. The pins would be dull and rounded.

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