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by fpgeek 14y ago
That's just not true. As others have noted, plenty of these apps are using the ActionBar (which is a default widget starting with 3.0, with an unofficial, open-source compatibility library) and plenty are using Fragments (also standard star
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by fpgeek 14y ago
There are all sorts of things I disagree with in this comment, but I want to highlight just one: iPhones (like many Android phones and Blackberries and ...) had Carrier IQ software installed on them. Google-controlled Nexus phones did not.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Well, to be fair, the filing date on that patent is Dec 1, 2004. Absent genuine industrial espionage, it would have been rather hard for the Google Desktop team to have been aware of it in October 2004: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_
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by fpgeek 14y ago
For the left hand, maybe. Meanwhile, the right hand is busy porting Jelly Bean to their x86/Android phones: http://www.zdnet.com/intel-ports-android-jelly-bean-to-x86-p...
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iPhone 3GS: To be discontinued(pocket-lint.com)
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by fpgeek 14y ago
iOS badly needs something like Android's Intents. Absent that, surely you see the problem with a maps.google.com link taking you to Apple's Maps app (no longer associated with Google in any way)?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Wasn't the agreement renewed at the late-in-the-game last year? Is there any reason to think Google would have turned down a renewal (on the previous terms, we know there was friction over new features) this year?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
The same kind of thing is happening right now in Singapore: http://www.ida.gov.sg/infrastructure/20060919190208.aspx It really is the tried-and-true model.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
One interesting question is whether or not Google will respond by adding an ad-supported component to their tablet ecosystem. As a technical matter, I don't think it would be hard (for instance) to add Gmail ads to the Gmail app. And I'd th
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Android 4.0.3 confirmed for the new devices: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/fire/specifications.html But does that also imply no update for the original Kindle Fire?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
The final OS is one thing (hold back whatever you want there), but where is the SDK? Developers need that if you want them to be ready (and you can always put your super-secret magic in the first post-launch SDK update). To me, the MIA SDK
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Shrunken or cherry-picked? There's a pretty big difference in development effort between the two.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Apple makes it difficult for iOS users to not update (consider all of the effort in the jailbreaking community to keep devices on old OS versions). Android OEMs and carriers, on the other hand, often make it easy to not update even when an
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I'm not saying they're exactly equivalent, but let me make the my reasoning more concrete so you see what I'm talking about. With respect to a new OS release: (a) When can people outside of the OS developer / OEMs and relevant carriers firs
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I'm sorry, but that's just bullshit. The Linux / Windows update situation that is most analogous to the carrier-gated smartphone updates is updating OSes inside large companies. It's the same update process - a third party has to certify yo
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Very true. The competition always seems to have bigger self-inflicted wounds. For example, last year I'm pretty sure HTC and Sony hurt themselves by skimping on internal storage and Motorola had some high-profile late devices. This year I t
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I'm sure Google is already the developer of the most-downloaded, most-popular Android applications, by a large margin. To date, that seems to have motivated them to establish a good foundation for introspection and dynamic dispatch early on
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I'd say "don't care" is a pretty accurate reading. When ICS arrived for my wife's SGS2, she was probably more irritated by the update clearing her home screens than she was about most of the improvements in ICS. IIRC, the only feature that
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by fpgeek 14y ago
My view of the situation is that the period between the Android version launch and the launch of the first non-Nexus device is Android's equivalent of iOS's public beta. Note, in particular, the large volume of changes between Android 4.0
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I tend to prefer "patent ogre" myself.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Jolla is a real Finnish company started by Nokia employees. The Open webOS platform beta was just released. For that matter here's Lenovo, just starting to expand their smartphone line beyond China, citing the difficulty in "negotiating and
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by fpgeek 14y ago
For completeness, here's a non-cartoon summary of the other side of the story: http://www.courtneymilan.com/ramblings/2012/07/24/your-unspe...
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Sadly, I don't see skinning hurting Samsung, especially since, judging by the volume of build leaks, the Galaxy S3 is very likely going to be both: 1. The first non-Nexus phone updated to Jelly Bean. 2. The first device using a non-Nexus ch
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Yeah. AFAIK, ICS + Jelly Bean by themselves are bigger than every mobile platform out there except for: - Symbian - Gingerbread by itself - iOS as a whole - Android as a whole
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Given that yesterday Google said Android had reached 480 million devices, we have the following (overestimates because some devices are no longer in service, but still): Cupcake: ~ 1 million Donut: ~ 2 million Eclair: ~ 18 million Froyo: ~
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Or Apple could just be cautious about the new connector. This is their first new dock connector since 2005. They may want to see it (or third-party accessories for it) in the field before approving third-party adapters. There may be electri
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by fpgeek 14y ago
By starting their "thermonuclear war" in the first place, Apple has already, practically speaking, leveled the patent system against small players. Almost by definition, small players don't have bombs to respond with nor do they have sponso
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by fpgeek 14y ago
It isn't Samsung's (or Apple's) job to convince the foreman of the law. It is the judge's job to tell the jury what the law is for the purposes of their deliberations. It is the jury's job to follow the judge's instructions with respect
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> And he used his tech credentials and patent experience to convince the other jurors. Don't you see a problem with that? I'd say there's a problem. Using his patent experience to convince the other jurors is pretty similar to a lawyer
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I'm getting a 404 on the article link, but this works: http://geekgirlweb.com/?p=9

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