Zaim3

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by Zaim3 14y ago
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 through" the Nexus 7 actual
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by Zaim3 14y ago
"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 then turn around and s
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by Zaim3 14y ago
"What the hell? How is the PageRank patent not protection to Google?" Because it belongs to Stanford University, not Google.
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by Zaim3 14y ago
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 value of the entire eco
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by Zaim3 14y ago
Hard to feel sorry for "abuses" against the initial aggressors.
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by Zaim3 14y ago
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.
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by Zaim3 14y ago
"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 just the pipe. A recen
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by Zaim3 14y ago
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 UI. The situation is m
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by Zaim3 14y ago
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 turn if she has a 3G
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by Zaim3 14y ago
Yeah, I read it as the iOS/OS S style convergence. Different systems, but consistent UI/UX/feature implementations across the two.
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by Zaim3 14y ago
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 after that, even their c
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by Zaim3 14y ago
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).
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by Zaim3 14y ago
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.
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by Zaim3 14y ago
Well in the case of ICS, it's more accurate to say that Matias Duarte re-used his earlier ideas than "copied" from himself.
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by Zaim3 14y ago
Looks like Google accidentally started two memes this month: #whitespace and #selectivelyquoteprivacypolicy
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by Zaim3 14y ago
"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 wording to the logic
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by Zaim3 14y ago
Win8 contracts seem very similar to Android's "Intent" functionality.
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by Zaim3 14y ago
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 abilities. Android is Goo
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by Zaim3 14y ago
> "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 the source argument hol