Technically Nexus devices have always been "at cost" to Google, since it's the OEM who gets the profit off the hardware sales in exchange for Google controlling the experience. So Rubin's statement about "selling…
"Because the FRAND abuses originated by Motorola and supported by Google is some of the most disgraceful behaviour seen in the industry since the days of Rambus. You don't participate in the creation of a standard and…
"What the hell? How is the PageRank patent not protection to Google?" Because it belongs to Stanford University, not Google.
The Android tablet ecosystem was stuck in a chicken/egg problem where nobody would develop for it until there was a market, and they'd be no market until there are tablet apps. A successful Nexus tablet increases the…
Hard to feel sorry for "abuses" against the initial aggressors.
I think that was more down to 4.0.3 not being stable than anything else. Even the T-mobile Nexus S had that OTA pulled after 2 weeks, so made no sense to push it out to the 4G.
"Indeed. Google could have implemented it on iOS if they had wanted to, but that was a pretty big selling point for some people to get an Android phone over iOS." No they couldn't, Apple controlled the app, Google was…
But the "vanishingly few" are often the most significant features of a particular years iOS upgrade, whereas Google's 1st party apps are for the most part decoupled with the major differences between 4.X and 2.X being…
It's pretty important to user satisfaction that Joe can say to Sally "You have an iPhone, right? Check out what they can do now!" And Sally be able to say "Mine does that too? Awesome!" Sally won't be able to do Turn by…
Yeah, I read it as the iOS/OS S style convergence. Different systems, but consistent UI/UX/feature implementations across the two.
The T-Mobile Nexus S you're referring to had its 4.0.3 OTA pulled within the same month it was released due to mass complaints with Android OS wakelocks/battery drain, instability and other misc things. For 3 months…
Not really seeing why Gruber thinks Win8 "contracts" are "richer" than Android's intents/content providers. They're pretty much identical (though "contracts" has a much clearer name).
Getting B&N to drop their very effective invalidity claims against MSFT's "license for linux" mystery patents couldn't have hurt either, and was probably the main motivator.
Well in the case of ICS, it's more accurate to say that Matias Duarte re-used his earlier ideas than "copied" from himself.
Looks like Google accidentally started two memes this month: #whitespace and #selectivelyquoteprivacypolicy
"create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services)" Seems reasonable enough to me. Seems like you're taking the…
Win8 contracts seem very similar to Android's "Intent" functionality.
ChromeOS/Chrome Web Store seems to be about countering the the trend towards "appification" (the consumption of the web through native clients) by turning the web itself into an app store and giving websites native…
> "Well my app just happens to run smaller on your huge screen" approach." Android has adequate methods of dealing with that (density independent pixels, Relative positioning/Box model of layout) so I still think…
Technically Nexus devices have always been "at cost" to Google, since it's the OEM who gets the profit off the hardware sales in exchange for Google controlling the experience. So Rubin's statement about "selling…
"Because the FRAND abuses originated by Motorola and supported by Google is some of the most disgraceful behaviour seen in the industry since the days of Rambus. You don't participate in the creation of a standard and…
"What the hell? How is the PageRank patent not protection to Google?" Because it belongs to Stanford University, not Google.
The Android tablet ecosystem was stuck in a chicken/egg problem where nobody would develop for it until there was a market, and they'd be no market until there are tablet apps. A successful Nexus tablet increases the…
Hard to feel sorry for "abuses" against the initial aggressors.
I think that was more down to 4.0.3 not being stable than anything else. Even the T-mobile Nexus S had that OTA pulled after 2 weeks, so made no sense to push it out to the 4G.
"Indeed. Google could have implemented it on iOS if they had wanted to, but that was a pretty big selling point for some people to get an Android phone over iOS." No they couldn't, Apple controlled the app, Google was…
But the "vanishingly few" are often the most significant features of a particular years iOS upgrade, whereas Google's 1st party apps are for the most part decoupled with the major differences between 4.X and 2.X being…
It's pretty important to user satisfaction that Joe can say to Sally "You have an iPhone, right? Check out what they can do now!" And Sally be able to say "Mine does that too? Awesome!" Sally won't be able to do Turn by…
Yeah, I read it as the iOS/OS S style convergence. Different systems, but consistent UI/UX/feature implementations across the two.
The T-Mobile Nexus S you're referring to had its 4.0.3 OTA pulled within the same month it was released due to mass complaints with Android OS wakelocks/battery drain, instability and other misc things. For 3 months…
Not really seeing why Gruber thinks Win8 "contracts" are "richer" than Android's intents/content providers. They're pretty much identical (though "contracts" has a much clearer name).
Getting B&N to drop their very effective invalidity claims against MSFT's "license for linux" mystery patents couldn't have hurt either, and was probably the main motivator.
Well in the case of ICS, it's more accurate to say that Matias Duarte re-used his earlier ideas than "copied" from himself.
Looks like Google accidentally started two memes this month: #whitespace and #selectivelyquoteprivacypolicy
"create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services)" Seems reasonable enough to me. Seems like you're taking the…
Win8 contracts seem very similar to Android's "Intent" functionality.
ChromeOS/Chrome Web Store seems to be about countering the the trend towards "appification" (the consumption of the web through native clients) by turning the web itself into an app store and giving websites native…
> "Well my app just happens to run smaller on your huge screen" approach." Android has adequate methods of dealing with that (density independent pixels, Relative positioning/Box model of layout) so I still think…