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by fpgeek 14y ago
Yeah, I can never remember which "News" keeps my current search and which doesn't.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> Instead of having a few websites occupying the top place, provide the traffic to other, smaller players. So the e-economy can expand more. How would you do that? Throw in some random numbers to shuffle the search results?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
It's worth noting that even functional programmers will admit that stack traces are sometimes useful. People have even done research into capturing useful stack traces stack traces in the presence of tail recursion: http://libra.msra.cn/Pu
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by fpgeek 14y ago
In the world where he's looking for a reason his patent wasn't completely anticipated by TiVo (or ReplayTV or ...): http://www.google.com/patents/US7352953
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Yes, absolutely. I just think it is important to remember where the weaknesses are and why some people are making an alternative tradeoff.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
If you take the subtle details into account, no one is copying Apple's inventions either (just listen to any iOS enthusiast on Android scrolling, for example).
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Don't companies trademark specific colors all the time (or at least try to prevent those colors from being used in anyone else's corporate logo)?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
And even then sometimes you have to hire a team of lawyers to defend your loopholes in a trial.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
It's worth noting that Apple won on "rounded rectangles" as they applied to the iPhone (instead of the iPad). That certainly complicates any attempted workarounds.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Much as I love Android, and much as the Android team has done yeoman's work on this front... Sadly, today, the more accurate statement is all of them are theoretically solvable by sandboxing and permissions mechanisms. Getting those sandbox
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by fpgeek 14y ago
And, unlike Android, neither Open WebOS nor MeeGo have a sponsor that would even consider trying to protect them. If you wanted to see either Open WebOS or MeeGo in the US (rather than China), Apple's lawsuits have effectively closed that d
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> Is it possible to use this as an advantage against established app stores? Or is Google already established as the platform to be on for mobile porn? Google has similar guidelines to Apple on this front (see Zinio's comments about why
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by fpgeek 14y ago
IIRC, there are issues with the latest Retina MacBook Pro.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> "independently developed" > This is a new claim and not one that will find many takers imho. So Netscape Navigator 2.0b1 was cribbing off the the iPhone when it designed "Live URLs" detecting URLs and email addresses in mail and n
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I wouldn't bee so confident about that. The jury also found that the Nexus S 4G infringed the scrolling patent even though it doesn't include "bounce back" and, instead, using stock Android's "overscroll glow" (which, in theory, was suppose
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by fpgeek 14y ago
It was also tossed out in the Netherlands (Apple's attempt at a pre-holiday ban of the Galaxy S II and other Samsung products last year). Sadly, these results mean almost nothing in the US.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> The Galaxy Nexus getting pulled off the market because it can search for things? Absolutely. A Google -designed product getting pulled because of search ? Does not compute.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Good catch. I forgot that part. The more I hear from the jury the more it sounds like they first decided "Apple good. Samsung bad." and filled in the rest from there.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
If you really want a kid's tablet, you should check out the Nabi 2: http://www.nabitablet.com It's been designed from the ground up for children ("kid mode" and "parent mode", an included rubber bumper and other attention paid to durabili
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Here's another gem: "Just to make it clear, the phone that I have is a Motorola Droid X2 and the reason I'm mentioning that is because it is in the record, it was told to the judge and told to the court when asked that question. And it is
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by fpgeek 14y ago
This is where Marco talks about the new Dock connector: http://www.marco.org/2012/08/15/the-foolproof-dock-connector
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by fpgeek 14y ago
My point is that whatever you want to call the governance model of Linux it isn't anything like a (non-joking) dictatorship. A real dictator could and would have stopped the Android team from leaving (i.e. made them do things his way or not
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Phones have become more and more like computers over those 6 years (and this trend was obvious before that). Apple isn't a newcomer to the computer market (and their earlier history is serving them well - many of the patents they're using a
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Because they've shown little or no empathy about those unpleasant experiences?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> Even Linux has King Linus. Once upon a time (a few years ago), King Linus and his nobles weren't terribly happy with many of the technical decisions the Android team made. How did King Linus exercise his sovereignty? Did it stop the A
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Cynically, I'd say Apple is (successfully, judging by the commentary here) solving the problem of finding reasonable-sounding justifications of their app store approval process (and the inevitable arbitrary decisions that come with it).
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by fpgeek 14y ago
You're making unfounded conclusions about a hypothetical feature Apple hasn't implemented. I can think of at least one way to make it difficult for a kid to opt-in (I'm sure there are others): require the opt-in to be done online and requir
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> Apple didn't force anyone to buy an iphone. After Apple has sued the top three Android OEMs in the US (Samsung, HTC and Motorola) and more competitors overseas that statement rings more than a little hollow.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Every Android device I've ever set up (all the way back to the G1) has a skip button on that same screen. You're free to hit that and never associate a Google account with that device (and get your apps from Amazon, etc.).
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by fpgeek 14y ago
People will just buy different Android phones from someone else. We've already been through this. AT&T (uniquely among US carriers, I believe) blocked non-Market applications on all of their devices. The success of the Amazon Appstore f

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