I've never seen Google put out that vibe. If anything they're proud of it. I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?
Exactly this. This situation has nothing to do with hackers or programming or even work of any kind. It's just about certain people who think differently when in certain situations and that leads people to label them…
What exactly do you feel it's lacking?
It's not good to attribute all that credit to iTunes. Amazon and Google may have been able to negotiate other terms. Because unlike Apple, neither Amazon or Google had a separate MP3 player and thus no incentive to…
Substitute magazines instead of webpages and you've got an answer to one of the most famous interview questions.
dammit, when did trolls like this make their way to HN?
> ...and untold millions of lines of changes to the Linux kernel are kept secret and are not at all available to other Linux users or even to Linux contributors Kept secret by whom?
AOSP is open source, period. Just because Google apps aren't doesn't make the entire thing closed. The binary blobs and baseband firmware might as well be on any "open" phone. The issue here is not whether Android…
But if Walmart decides not to stock your item, there's still Target or somewhere else for a customer to go to to get it. But if Apple bans your app, the entire iOS userbase will never see it.
I don't think the openness of the desktop world was because of Microsoft. If any other company had taken over, we would've seen pretty much the same thing imo. In today's mobile world, Apple and others could learn from…
I just had an OS course with this textbook this last semester. Really good book. I'm surprised to see this on HN.
Are you kidding me? They tell me exactly what data they collect and for what purpose. To say that is malware is either extreme sarcasm or extreme stupidity.
I don't see why such a big deal is being made of this. If users want it, they can install the app from the CM website. The Windows app is also being installed from their website. Google doesn't want people to hold it…
Well for me personally, it's been a long series of small stuff that convinced me that they were an engineering organization first and a for-profit company next. I remember when Android 2.3 was released and at one of the…
I think the problem comes from the fact of treating Google+ like any other social network like Facebook. Google+ is supposed to be an identity layer for all of Google. The fact that they have status update posting, etc…
I highly doubt that malware could brick a phone.
Users in China don't have access to the Play Store and aren't even counted among the activations that Google reports. The reason that there is more piracy in China is because of no access to the Play Store.
Apple still haven't even released a console and Apple apologists are already quick to jump on the "Apple invented everything under the sun" train. Why am I not surprised? If anything, it's Apple that's copying others…
Well no I don't agree with it, at least not in the way that you suggest.
And I frankly don't think that Samsung is taking any design clues from anywhere. They don't care what Apple is doing - they do their own thing. And with the next Touchwiz, they will revolutionize Touchwiz UX. That's a…
Which specific Android UI are you talking about? Touchwiz? Sense? LG's UI? Sony's UI? Stock Android? Personally I can't talk about the other stuff but think stock Android looks and feels great while being extremely…
Sorry to go OT but those lines are not Oppenheimer's originally. They are from the Bhagavad Gita.
How did they just hack that billboard with just their phones?
Thanks, I've been looking for something like this.
That's insanely brilliant if you ask me. And on a site called Hacker News, mos people should agree!
I've never seen Google put out that vibe. If anything they're proud of it. I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?
Exactly this. This situation has nothing to do with hackers or programming or even work of any kind. It's just about certain people who think differently when in certain situations and that leads people to label them…
What exactly do you feel it's lacking?
It's not good to attribute all that credit to iTunes. Amazon and Google may have been able to negotiate other terms. Because unlike Apple, neither Amazon or Google had a separate MP3 player and thus no incentive to…
Substitute magazines instead of webpages and you've got an answer to one of the most famous interview questions.
dammit, when did trolls like this make their way to HN?
> ...and untold millions of lines of changes to the Linux kernel are kept secret and are not at all available to other Linux users or even to Linux contributors Kept secret by whom?
AOSP is open source, period. Just because Google apps aren't doesn't make the entire thing closed. The binary blobs and baseband firmware might as well be on any "open" phone. The issue here is not whether Android…
But if Walmart decides not to stock your item, there's still Target or somewhere else for a customer to go to to get it. But if Apple bans your app, the entire iOS userbase will never see it.
I don't think the openness of the desktop world was because of Microsoft. If any other company had taken over, we would've seen pretty much the same thing imo. In today's mobile world, Apple and others could learn from…
I just had an OS course with this textbook this last semester. Really good book. I'm surprised to see this on HN.
Are you kidding me? They tell me exactly what data they collect and for what purpose. To say that is malware is either extreme sarcasm or extreme stupidity.
I don't see why such a big deal is being made of this. If users want it, they can install the app from the CM website. The Windows app is also being installed from their website. Google doesn't want people to hold it…
Well for me personally, it's been a long series of small stuff that convinced me that they were an engineering organization first and a for-profit company next. I remember when Android 2.3 was released and at one of the…
I think the problem comes from the fact of treating Google+ like any other social network like Facebook. Google+ is supposed to be an identity layer for all of Google. The fact that they have status update posting, etc…
I highly doubt that malware could brick a phone.
Users in China don't have access to the Play Store and aren't even counted among the activations that Google reports. The reason that there is more piracy in China is because of no access to the Play Store.
Apple still haven't even released a console and Apple apologists are already quick to jump on the "Apple invented everything under the sun" train. Why am I not surprised? If anything, it's Apple that's copying others…
Well no I don't agree with it, at least not in the way that you suggest.
And I frankly don't think that Samsung is taking any design clues from anywhere. They don't care what Apple is doing - they do their own thing. And with the next Touchwiz, they will revolutionize Touchwiz UX. That's a…
Which specific Android UI are you talking about? Touchwiz? Sense? LG's UI? Sony's UI? Stock Android? Personally I can't talk about the other stuff but think stock Android looks and feels great while being extremely…
Sorry to go OT but those lines are not Oppenheimer's originally. They are from the Bhagavad Gita.
How did they just hack that billboard with just their phones?
Thanks, I've been looking for something like this.
That's insanely brilliant if you ask me. And on a site called Hacker News, mos people should agree!