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by fpgeek 14y ago
The last time I checked, you couldn't use a GoPhone SIM in an iPhone, period (though this could have easily changed, especially now that T-Mobile is deep into their refarm). Easily the #1 complaint of international iPhone users visiting the
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by fpgeek 14y ago
CalDAV and CardDAV support for Windows Phone coming before the reprieve is over.
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Gmail ActiveSync gets 6 month reprieve for Windows Phone (but not Windows 8)(arstechnica.com)
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Not necessarily. 20 years from application only just became the law. Compuserve would have been working under 17 years from grant. And, IIRC, they could have been evil and kept filing follow-on claims to delay grant until a time they though
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by fpgeek 14y ago
As someone who lives in Singapore, I have a completely different take on this. I don't see what's happening as iPhone fatigue. I know plenty of people who still have and love their iPhones. Instead I see this as Asian vendors (Samsung, in p
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Do you really think merchants who go through the effort of adding a credit card surcharge are going to pass up the opportunity to undercut the cash prices of the merchants down the street who skip adding one?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Unlocking phones isn't illegal. Unlocking phones without permission (of the manufacturer and/or the carrier the phone is locked to) is what will become illegal.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
AT&T has been unlocking off-contract iPhones for less than a year (of the over 5 years they've carried it): http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/6/2930642/att-sim-unlock-ipho... And who knows if they'll change their mind again in the face o
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Isn't this filing part of a legal process intended to do just that (i.e. appropriately penalize the companies behind this collusive scheme)?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
That tracks with something else I heard about recently via Twitter: Indian Android OEMs releasing devices without Google Play because they had problems with Google's terms/fees. That was confusing because the only thing I'd seen about Andro
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I expect Verizon will get tons of love from Google... right after they start running VoLTE on that sweet, sweet open-access band.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Citation please? Is that a recent change? Otherwise a $15 fee seems at least an order of magnitude off. Android hit 200 million activations in November 2011. It hit over 500 million in September 2012. Assuming the $15 fee was in effect when
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Indeed. One wonders how their interest and monetization would have gone if they'd partnered with Amazon or Google for content on Android instead of pointing at iTunes.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Nope. At least Lenovo (via the front door of lenovo.com) and HP (if you know where to look) permit this, as of the last time I priced out a laptop anyway. There are also smaller shops that will do highly customized builds (and often have we
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by fpgeek 14y ago
People are more likely to try something out if they know they can easily go back to what they're used to.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
The Haskell toolchain has its share of weaknesses (e.g. the impurity of package builds has been painful recently), but I also feel the need to point out that GHC learned lesson 1 a long time ago: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html
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by fpgeek 14y ago
If anyone has a counterexample I'd love to hear it, but so far as I know no one other than Microsoft (and, until recently, Google) offers Exchange ActiveSync to free users. In my opinion, that strongly suggests that Microsoft's licensing te
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by fpgeek 14y ago
One of the problematic sections others in this thread have mentioned dates back to at least April 2009: "3.3 Except to the extent required by applicable third party licenses, you may not copy (except for backup purposes), modify, adapt, red
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by fpgeek 14y ago
This point isn't moot at all. One of the first things Amazon tells Kindle Fire developers to do when setting up their development environment is download the Android SDK: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/fire/setup.html To me, the real is
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Hold on a minute. While the Android SDK terms have changed over the years (most notably with the recent "anti-fragmentation" clause), that's not what the post is talking about. Instead, the post is identifying the Android SDK as non-free be
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Especially since Google is already learning how to be an ISP in Kansas City?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Amazingly, innovation is where the OEM skins we normally deplore really shine. Yeah, a lot of their experiments don't work out, but some do and it pushes Android forward. Looking at 4.2, for instance, at least lockscreen widgets, wireless d
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by fpgeek 14y ago
This is why I prefer to say "patent ogre". It is clearly different, but also clear that there is a similar-scale problem.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> I really don't believe that many people would have bought an iPad if they didn't already have a computer of some sort, though I could be wrong here. When the iPad came out didn't you need a computer (with iTunes) to activate it? I va
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but I just tried this on my Galaxy Note 2 and the first certificate was a TURKTRUST certificate! Apparently, it sorted that way because the name started with "(c) 2005". There was also another certificate fu
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by fpgeek 14y ago
One issue the article doesn't touch on is the various restrictions Microsoft and Intel put on netbooks (to protect their margins related to other PCs, I believe). I'd say those were at least a contributing factor (if not the underlying kill
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Even regulating the filter is hard as anyone involved with DMCA complaints knows.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I suspect the grandparent comment is pure sarcasm.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
The studios already charge fair prices for digital content. The $5 DVD rack at Target is great. Sales at Amazon and other places can be even better. They just make sure it isn't convenient to get that fairly priced digital content. A certai
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by fpgeek 14y ago
And those redshirt freshmen would be dealing with experienced professors of lobbying. I don't think term limits would do much (if anything) to lessen the influence of corporate interests and could easily make the problem worse.

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