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by bookwormAT 13y ago
please re-read my post. My point is that Android is not a new operating system in the sense the word is used today. It is a foundation on which you build operating systems that are compatible to another. Apple could build iOS on top of Andr
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
Who is "they"? If Android would only support 6 different screen sizes, then the companies building devices that do not fit into this market would not stop making devices. They would just build their OS not on Android. As a develop
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
"you don't adapt a little." Adapt from one of two not android based systems to another, for example from iOS to Windows Phone. Now adapt from one android-based OS to another, e.g. from the Galaxy S "Nature OS" to HT
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
"Maybe there are 100, but 97 of them don't matter." Please reread my post. I'm referring to the software on the Galaxy S, the HTC One etc. as independent operating systems. These OSes matter. It's what people use to
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
"By that same logic Android is fragmenting it too." How? Android is an open cross platform technology for building operating systems that are app-compatible with each other. How is that fragmenting? "No, as a developer having
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
Anyone complaining about Android fragmentation should ask themselves if they would prefer if every device would go the "Apple way" and make their very own operating systems for their device. Would this really solve fragmentation?
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Nexus 7 (2013) - Mini Review(anandtech.com)
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
yes there is. You can install any application without approval from Samsung or Google. That is a freedom in the Samsung world that you don't need to root your device for.
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
"Don't really see the point in getting another Motorola phone." That's why Google is spending $500 Million to market the Moto X Phone
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
Android is a cross platform technology that is used by many companies to create all kinds of device software. Building an app for the Samsung Galaxy S is about as hard as making an app for the iPhone. But an App that runs on both the Galax
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
Not a lesson. But a lesson well learned.
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
"I would love to see HN commenters' reactions if on disabling Secure Boot, the Windows 8 partition is wiped along with any documents and files you saved locally" The equivalent to a Windows 8 partition on ChromeOS is cloud storage like Goog
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
Aza Raskin discusses the feature in 2007: http://alistapart.com/article/neveruseawarning . I don't know if there is more/better material on the topic. Personally, I have a very positive memory of when I discovered this feature in the earl
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
"I was pretty surprised how hostile the interviewers were." They are always like that. Every video interview I've seen on their site is exactly in that tone.
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
And don't forget Google, who got famous for some of their design decisions early on. E.g. the minimal design of google.com, and the "undo replaces confirm dialog" pattern.
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
"Name one thing (other than a phablet) that other companies did first" The smartphone. The mobile device as an independent computer. The voice interface. The web browser. The app store. The notification panel. Push messaging. The lock scre
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
tl;dr: Gamasutra interviewed several game developers. They say Android is very profitable, and fragmentation is exaggerated by the press and not a big deal.
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
Here is the original source of this story: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/11/google-play-games-le...
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
This makes sense to me. The keynote is for the most part a press event with product announcements. Journalists probably prefer to collect all the headlines in one event, and Google can focus on us developers for the rest of the conference.
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
The title is slightly misleading: Google bans apps that do not update through the Play Store from the Play Store, not from Android. They do not (and cannot) ban such updates from Android.
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
Here you go: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tchami.kin...
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
"There could also be an option to provide the app with fake data instead of telling it to not have any permissions," Some guys from Cyanogen released a proof on concept a while ago. You could install any Android app and select which permiss
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by bookwormAT 13y ago
"However, neither my TF300 nor my Nexus 4 are listed as compatible. [...] It apperently isn't compatible with all 4.x devices." It is running perfectly fine on my Nexus 4.
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by bookwormAT 14y ago
That it is not at widget, but a launcher. Widgets and launchers have very different behaviour on Android.
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by bookwormAT 14y ago
"(Although resetting a default once you've chosen it could be made a lot easier)" I imagine most customers reset the default simply by uninstalling the new launcher. The way through the app settings is really well hidden.
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by bookwormAT 14y ago
android homescreens behave very differently than browser toolbars do. You can not set a homescreen secretly or in the background, and you can only have a single home screen set at any given time. If the user decides to install a homescreen,
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by bookwormAT 14y ago
I hope Android turns out to be a profitable platform for Paradox Interactive. Paradox is known for pushing creative game ideas and is not afraid of niche markets (like historic politic simulators). They have earned a lot of credibility in
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by bookwormAT 14y ago
"native" and "cross platform" are not absolute terms. An Android application runs across many android-based operating systems (in the user's sense of the word), and even more different devices. A web application runs across even more system
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by bookwormAT 14y ago
The title of this submission is horribly misleading. This is not a boring article about Android fragmentation blablabla, but an interesting proposal for an alternative UI pattern. The actual title of the article, "C-Swipe: An Ergonomic Solu
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by bookwormAT 14y ago
Are there problems with running flash on ChromeOS?

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