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by fpgeek 11y ago
You're not looking at the whole board. There are other companies that make money off of Android. Qualcomm, for instance. They've made money off of Android by being the dominant SoC provider in the Android ecosystem (could've
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by fpgeek 11y ago
If you'd love a 15 minute refund window, I wonder how you feel about the current Google Play refund window (2 hours). See: http://www.androidcentral.com/google-play-support-page-confi...
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by fpgeek 11y ago
I don't know enough to have an opinion on whether or not Karen Sandler would be a good or bad community representative for the Linux Foundation. That being said, if the problem is that she would be a bad representative, the appropriate
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by fpgeek 11y ago
WiFi not working at all is a different matter, but not working with a specific wireless card is a quirk. Mini PCI Express is a standard (as was Mini PCI before it). Swapping out a laptop wireless card you don't like isn't that har
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by fpgeek 11y ago
But WINE isn't designed to be interoperable with Windows. I'm not even sure what that means. Outside of some special cases, it's not like you can get something useful (or even functional) by arbitrarily mixing and matching
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by fpgeek 11y ago
I suspect the distinction is that the cryptography for encrypting and signing apps is done by Apple (and they've done all the paperwork for themselves).
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by fpgeek 11y ago
> On one hand, you have a population that believes that no one should be left to die if they show up at a hospital (probably due to their religion and whatnot). Or out of simple self-interest. Having health insurance doesn't guarant
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by fpgeek 11y ago
There's nothing that prevents companies from selling insurance along state lines - as long as they comply with the insurance regulations of every state they want to sell in. See: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpr
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by fpgeek 11y ago
My understanding is that the real leash is the H1B to green card process. The process is slow and complicated and switching companies often requires you to start over (not to mention opening doors for other problems).
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by fpgeek 11y ago
As you might guess, I don't agree that Firefox breaks intents. If you're outside the browser, intent resolution proceeds normally. What changes is that if you're in Firefox you need to take an affirmative step to raise the in
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Yes, Firefox on Android is awesome. My favorite features: 1. The best options for delegating from websites to installed apps I've seen (via the long-press menu or by touching the Android when it appears in the URL bar). 2. Extensions.
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by fpgeek 11y ago
That would be foolish. Firefox is the only major browser not controlled by one of Google's major competitors. Even without a deal for the search engine default, there are all sorts of reasons that is valuable to Google (collaboration o
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by fpgeek 11y ago
It's not just the charger wire. I have a clear example of Apple prioritizing form over function in the charger itself: In 2011, my wife and I bought new laptops (a MacBook Pro and a ThinkPad) around the same time - based on the same In
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Why do I feel like the next line probably is: Client: "Oh, no. We can't do that. That would violate policies ABC, XYZ and 123. Team FOO would never sign off and ...".
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by fpgeek 11y ago
To be fair, when it happened, Debian rebranding Firefox as Iceweasel was an unhappy decision at the end of an acrimonious discussion. It's only with the passage of time (and by comparison to Canonical's obfuscation) that it looks
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by fpgeek 11y ago
> Android security lags behind, because Google doesn't want to force OEMs and providers to provide updates. What do OEM updates have to do with a security hole in Chrome ? Despite all the merger chatter, Chrome isn't an OS-lev
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by fpgeek 11y ago
> Isn't that how most every exploit and virus seen on Android work? Actually, no. Stagefright was about exploiting holes in the parsing of malformed media files (no installation required). Tons of other vulnerabilities were of the f
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by fpgeek 11y ago
> Too bad the TPP didn't include EU countries (I know), maybe there would have been ONE benefit. You think the TPP including the EU would have led to better privacy protections? To it seems obvious that the point of addressing priva
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by fpgeek 11y ago
As does Google. Or has "fastboot boot" stopped working on Nexus (and many other bootloader-unlocked) devices?
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by fpgeek 11y ago
ALWAYS? I wouldn't be so sure about that: http://daringfireball.net/2008/11/google_mobile_uses_private...
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Yes, the theoretical availability of public defenders satisfies the literal text of the amendment. That being said, effectively banning most private counsel (except those working for free or possibly on contingency) and, in practice, forcin
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Full programmer control and preventing bugs, security holes and so on are not fundamentally opposed. It's not like most programmers go to work trying to make sure their software has a certain number of buffer overflows in it. It just t
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Yes and no. From a customer perspective, I'm sure declining quality did them in. But that declining quality didn't happen in a vacuum. From what I remember, Dell did a much better job of managing supply chain costs than Gateway di
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by fpgeek 11y ago
The closest you get to a good, small Android is Sony's Xperia Z(1,3,5) Compact series. They're about 1 cm shorter than an iPhone 6/6S mainly because they don't have the home button, but that's still about 0.5 cm tal
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by fpgeek 11y ago
By that standard, Amazon should be able to do pretty much what they please too, but we know they can't (see: in-app Kindle store / link to web store, etc.).
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Considering how frequently and heavily Apple pushes developers for other updates (e.g. new iOS version support, 64-bit support, etc.) I'd be shocked if future support were any consideration in the rejection. I'd expect Apple to be
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by fpgeek 11y ago
If weight on the screen often breaks the force touch sensors without breaking the screen, that's an ugly UI problem. Even with a low "force touch / no screen" accident rate (< 1%), there could easily be tens or hundre
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Image recognition is improving all the time. Don't give them any ideas...
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by fpgeek 11y ago
> Pay content creators who don't participate and are on monetised accounts as if the Red views had been seeing adverts, show adverts to everyone else. Doesn't Google's ability to do that depend on the details of the old ag
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Well, sure, you could not roll out a new revenue model that millions of users are interested in because of some holdout content creators [1], but, um, somehow I don't think that's how that meeting would go... [1] This comment clai

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