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by fpgeek 13y ago
If Google didn't send a C&D, I'd say there's a good chance that another company would. Don't forget that pesky download button.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Can Google release a Metro version of Chrome? One that non-developers can use on Windows RT and/or Windows Phone?
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Where did I say that ad-free YouTube was pushing this too far? I think both Microsoft and Google have plenty of ways to sort that out. The download button, on the other hand, is a completely different kettle of fish. If people start using M
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Microsoft has plenty to lose here. Push this too far and they can easily alienate the media partners they need for all sorts of things (like providing content for Windows tablets and Windows Phone).
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by fpgeek 13y ago
They're not done yet. According to my G+ stream, Amit Singhal has announced that Hangouts is also going to be the future of Google Voice. And apparently you can already choose to get SMS messages from Hangouts when you are idle. A less impo
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by fpgeek 13y ago
There are lots of reasons for Microsoft to comply with these demands. At least one reason for each major media company Microsoft currently partners with (or wants to in the future)... They, after all, are the ones most invested in these par
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by fpgeek 13y ago
ToS violations may not be "the" reason, but it is enough of a reason to force Google's hand, whether or not they have other reasons. Exactly how long do you think, say, Viacom woulds tolerate a high-profile, name-brand YouTube app that bloc
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U.S. Now Paints Apple as ‘Ringmaster’ in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing(nytimes.com)
4 points by fpgeek 13y ago|1 comments
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Very true. Personally, I wish there were a way for apps to specify optional permissions (ones an app can run without, but might require for specific features) as an alternative to required ones. To take a simple example, I've noticed that m
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Yes, this isn't the first thing I've seen recently that Google could have announced at I/O. Makes me wonder what they are planning to announce there.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Um, I'm not saying Drive offers everything Dropbox does, but on the subject of APIs this: https://developers.google.com/drive/ seems pretty reasonable.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Here's some relatively recent worldwide estimates: http://blog.laptopmag.com/android-powers-devices-worldwide You might want to pay particular attention to the device category Android is running away with. I found it surprising. Separatel
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I believe it came with the Note 2 release (though possibly not with some specific models, like the US ones). I got my (international) Note 2 a few weeks after it came out and, IIRC, I had a least a couple of multi-window Google apps (maybe
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Personally I think Facebook was too laid-back about this. I don't think they should have just been pushing Android phones, I think they should have made developers carry around something like a Galaxy Ace 2 (in other words, approximating wh
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Facebook’s iPhone Culture Builds An Overzealous Home On Android(techcrunch.com)
4 points by fpgeek 13y ago|1 comments
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by fpgeek 13y ago
You know, Samsung did the exact same thing last year with the S3 and Flipboard. I believe that, at the time, some people had similar concerns. In retrospect, though, that deal turned out great for Android. Samsung paying for exclusivity hel
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I don't think Google dropped the ball on active digitizers, other OEMs did. From what I remember, at least two other companies (HTC and Lenovo) also tried active digitizers on tablets. And soon after that (right around the original Note), G
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Samsung implemented multi-window exactly as Google wanted: opt-in instead of opt-out or forced. I highly doubt the Android team is unhappy about that. Several top Google apps support it (Chrome, Gmail, Maps, Talk and YouTube, judging from m
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I'm not saying the patent case is unrelated, but... B&N has also been offering specials and dropping the price pretty aggressively (these examples are all from April, BTW, there were more offers earlier in the year): http://www.the-dig
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Upon reflection, I'm not sure how gutsy the call is. And I wonder what one of Nook's recent investors (Microsoft) thinks. This could easily be "Throw on Google Play to help clear out this inventory so we can focus on our new Windows tablets
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Wow. Google has certainly been busy pulling in lots of previously non-Google Android tablets. Last year they got Kobo. Earlier this year they pulled in a bunch of no-name manufacturers (at least for this year's JB 4.1 tablets). Now they've
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Marco Arment opts his blog out of Pocket(alpha.app.net)
2 points by fpgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 14y ago
In a world where US government debt isn't triple-A either, it's hard to take the distinctions at the high end of the rating scale seriously.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Indeed. And not only has that company's relationship with their main chip supplier deteriorated, said supplier is hitting capacity constraints while attempting to satisfy their own demand: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-24/chip-shor
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Sony launches AOSP for Xperia Z(developer.sonymobile.com)
4 points by fpgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Google isn't imposing anything, AFAIK. The permissions exist because there are reasonable applications that might want them (e.g. contact sync). Quora is deciding what permissions to ask for. They could ask for more or less (other sites/ser
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Not really. While the iPhone has been influential and a huge success for Apple, it didn't really kill any of existing smartphone incumbents. "Everyone" was only buying an iPhone for fairly limited values of "everyone" (e.g. excluding severa
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by fpgeek 14y ago
No, that's what you get when you don't read the permissions you are granting. Here is the permission request I saw: Quora is requesting permission to: View basic information about your account View your email address Manage
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Translation: Sure, the odds have gotten longer. Ticket prices might be higher. Consolation prizes might be smaller. But don't worry. If you pick your numbers just right you too can still win the lottery! I understand things look different f
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Ah, that's a much more proportional response. That makes a lot of sense to me (though maybe not to Apple who often seems to act in black and white).

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