Comment Re:Yah! (Score 1) 99
Ah, 3. That old chestnut.
What would the results be like if the most popular search algorithm could be trivially gamed?
Look in your spam folder to find out.
HTH.
Comment Re:Small, nearly dead companies, Sue GOOGLE instea (Score 1) 344
Agreed. I'm sure the Open Handset Alliance members can scare up a few patents between them.
Comment Re:Obvious things (Score 2) 122
Except it's search code would be worthless if publically available. It would be trivial to game it.
Comment Re:Should have deleted it from the start (Score 1) 201
I wouldn't say they didn't need the data...
SSIDs are geopoints are required if you're going to put together your own aGPS service as an alternative to SkyHook.
Comment Re:Does anybody still use Java? (Score 2) 150
... I think he means Android tablets.
Comment Re:Huh... (Score 1) 450
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Comment Re:My wife will have what I'm willing to support (Score 3, Informative) 483
Android is certainly reminiscent of Windows in it's need for a wipe and restore from time to time when you've installed a lot of things and it's got sluggish.
FUD. My Nexus is loaded up with apps and isn't sluggish at all.
Comment Re:linux (Score 1) 175
My Linux fonts are beautiful...
Java fonts are another matter.
Comment Re:PC Clone Wars Redux (Score 1) 328
I don't think Jobs had any hand in the Lisa product
He certainly did, for the first four years of development.
In fact, it was named after his daughter.
Comment Don't get it (Score 1) 63
If this has been going on "for some time", then I can only assume they have been overtaken by events.
The Facebook app for Android is pretty well featured, and the default Contacts app hooks in to it if you choose to FB authenticate. So you can see the last status update of all your contacts.
I don't see why they need a dedicated Facebook/Android handset... unless it's a marketing exercise, or they are trying to make the FB status updates/notifications more intrusive. Just seems to me like they are taking the featurephone mindset, and applying it to a smartphone (where IMHO it is redundant).
Comment The media (Score 1) 1695
The people that annoy me in all this are the media.
Where I live (UK), the government can often use the thirty year rule to halt the reporting of their mistakes. Two football players currently have injunctions out, stopping the media talking about their adultery. Worst consequence - shamed football player.
When the media see a story like this and have a choice for a change, what do they do?
Give a whackjob like Pastor Terry the oxygen of publicity.
Worse, they act like the annoying small kid in the playground, trying to provoke a fight between two bigger kids.
To Florida!
Pastor Terry, are you still going through with it? Thanks for the story.
To Kabul!
Angry Muslim guys... he's going through with it. What are you going to do? Really? You're going to stone Westerners? Thanks for the story.
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, there probably will be deaths over this.
Oh... but that's a story, too.
Submission + - How is Google Android catching up to Apple iOS (frontwave.eu)
frontwave writes: Apple has been very successful putting the iPhone and iPad in the market, actually creating new markets for online services, application developers, eBooks, etc. The iPhone has been the hottest entry in the Smartphone market since the Blackberry, and many people are still switching to it. But Android is coming strong in the US market, and we can expect the same trend in other places.
It is no surprise that the new products coming up this fall in mobile communications market, Tablets and Smartphones, are mostly bundled with the Android OS.
The mobile internet market is the biggest battleground for the internet companies and Google, as the biggest marketing company in the world, can not stay behind. Apple's marketing is excellent, every new product is received with applause and immediate demand.
It is no surprise that the new products coming up this fall in mobile communications market, Tablets and Smartphones, are mostly bundled with the Android OS.
The mobile internet market is the biggest battleground for the internet companies and Google, as the biggest marketing company in the world, can not stay behind. Apple's marketing is excellent, every new product is received with applause and immediate demand.
Comment Re:If I was Google... (Score 2, Interesting) 510
...or appeal to the OHA members to put any relevant software patents into an arsenal to hit Oracle with. They exist to improve (and perhaps protect) the platform.
Comment Re:Idiots (Score 1) 138
Fun story, but fairly inaccurate.
Comment Re:And thus there was Android (Score 1) 562
Sorry - not convinced.
They bought the platform in 2005, and did little with it until Apple showed them the way in the market with the iPhone?
Smells like reality distortion field to me.
I can understand that they took a little longer to form the OHA, and create & refine a serious open platform that has no two-tier app status and private APIs.
I don't see how they got "kicked up the backside" by the iPhone launch. Remember - they make very little money out of Android. They are not a hardware company like Apple. Their interest is in having a platform that they can't be locked out of, and the future advertising possibilities from a location-aware computing platform.
