arron61

I personally like Android Studio better than dealing with Xcode and their project and storyboard files. I don't think Xcode is designed well for small to medium teams -- having to merge those files is a "gruesome embarrassment".

I think the motox looks better and feels better than an iphone.

You mean like using Android's SyncAdapter and setting inInexactRepeating()? Android has supported this basic type of background scheduling since the start of time. The main difference is that Android you can do more - which can be abused. And their solution for abuse is a battery monitor that allows you to see which app is using the most battery. In a way you can say Android is more superior/powerful or you can say that the iOS is more limiting and thus potentially more user friendly.

Google bought Motorola for 12.5 billion and then sold off it's Home division for 2.3 billion. At the time of the purchase, Motorola had 2 billion in cash so in the end, Google probably paid 8 billion ish for Motorola. Considering that in those 1.5 years, Moto and Nokia's values have been decreasing as well, I think they are pretty close in value.

Is he serious? Ending a promotion which was stated as limited early due to overwhelming demand equates to getting your shit together?

gruber needs to get his shit together and stop being a total biased ass.

lol i call that barely working. Barely moves and the user didn't do anything but load the site.

Yes..this is exactly what I mean. If you don't want to be spammed from liking something, then don't allow the brands to reach out to users who liked their products. You can only do this with "follow."

By this definition, brands won't tell people to "like" their pages anymore, they will just say "follow" them. FB blurred the links and now no one knows what "like" or "follow" will do.

I can follow a brand and still not get all the information from that brand. This is ridiculous.

If you are constantly getting spammed by a fan page that you explicitly liked or followed, then the appropriate answer is to unlike or unfollow it. There's no reason to curate information that you wanted to get to begin with.

What if Twitter implemented something like this where certain tweets from a person you are following do not appear? How would that feel?

This strikes me totally as a money play and not for the user.

They don't sell the phones so they don't know how many are sold. The only count they have is all the activations that are coming from every new phone.

I don't think there can be a better measurement for them than this.

Andy Rubin: "...and for those wondering, we count each device only once (ie, we don't count re-sold devices), and "activations" means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service."

So it seems like a new device only.

who books travel 6 months in advance? You haven't even gotten your tickets yet.

Great analyst? He's basically an apple PR personnel. Most of his posts van be summed up into Apple can do no wrong. Anyone opposing apple is wrong and stupid. There is no logic. It's blatant and it's almost like he does it for page views

Um remove whitespaces by choosing compact setting. Problem solved.

Android does have sandboxing and its much better in than iOS. Each app runs in its own VM instance and requests for permissions. Additionally each app can also call other apps via intents. This allows for great sandboxing and reutilization.

I find most of the iOS5 additions taking an inspiration to how Android "improved" on the mobile space. So it's ok for Apple to do it then?

R&D != patents. The number of patents generated by a company is really based on the system employed within the company and not about how innovative the company is. Most software patents are bogus and if your company is set up with a great system to file patents quickly then you will get a lot of them. For example in my company, your performance is based on how many patents are filed. Additionally they have an entire team of lawyers that take any one page description of text and turn them into patentable items. The team of lawyers write the patent, do the research on prior patents, and will then file the patent for us.

It's a great patent filing system and it generates A LOT of patents, but the company is definitely not innovative.

Most other companies that are less keen on such a system will not file these bogus and broad patents.

This is more of Android adapting well to society's needs. Isn't that what RIM and Nokia are trying to do? What's wrong with adapting to a new general idea on how to operate on a phone - from keyboard to more touchscreen?

Android was bought behind Eric Schmidt's back by Larry And Segery. Andy Rubin went and pitched it to them to buy Android.

There is no proof that Eric Schmidt got insider information. Android had been in development for awhile and was only changed to be more of a touch screen after the iphone got released.

Apple steals good ideas and improves upon them all the time.

Does he have to hold such a grudge? A bit ridiculous and a bit petty.

You mean like all the areas that iOS (v4&5) is now copying or taking an inspiration from Android now?

Google Places is just another search engine but specifically for places (aka restaurants and stores). It used to be the case that it will aggregate all reviews from multiple review sites and show snippets of the reviews and then have a corresponding link for them to click on to go to the real site.

So in a sense, it's really just another search engine again, no different than the universal Google search, image search, product search, and etc. It's using the same indexed data but presented in two forms. Yelp wanted Google to remove them from product search and not universal search. This is why the google lawyer said this requires extra engineering. Yelp basically wants one thing and not another.

If you do a product search now, of course, you don't see any Yelp links at all (since they requested Google to remove them) and you see no snippets from any other review sites. All you see are google's own reviews and then some links on the bottom showing show more reviews from other sites. This was changed - and I think it makes it worse for Yelp and other review sites - but they wanted it this way.

I wish they will do more so every news piece will stop quoting the terrible Florian Muller

Can the JooJoo Pad sue Apple for infringements?

The bezel size, color, texture, and material are all the same.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2009/12/main.jpg

I think JooJoo (aka CrunchPad) should sue Apple for design infringements. Clearly it came out before the iPad (JooJoo 2009, iPad 2010). When I see an iPad, I think of the JooJoo pad. It is rectangular; it has a bezel; and it's thin!

Clearly these are all traits only for Apple and an iPad to use. Clearly Apple copied these traits just like how Android copied everything of iPhone.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2009/12/main.jpg

sarcastic rant

Clearly indicated by others already, this is about the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and not phones.

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is very generic and the interface is pure honeycomb.

No..ppl believe any tablets are ipads since Apple was first to make the tablet popular.

There are standard shapes and sizes for a lot of technologies.

This is ridiculous. They are suing over a rectangular shape and a certain size / weight?

So I guess only Apple can make a thin tablet. Any other one will be an infringement...

Can Ssamsung sue all other TV makers since they are all rectangular, with a bezel, and is flat? They all look too similar to Samsung TVs!

Eclipse is fine once you have the memory configured right and you turn off all the dumb validations and unnecessary checking.

Seems like apple is still playing catch up. All the rumored features are already on android. But of course I am sure apple's implementations will be considered gamechangers and revolutionary according to the fanboys. What's next? A customizable home launcher?

Actually it's odd. They say that in the Java tuning, they made some simple optimization that got it on par to the original C++ one but then they refused to do anything further; noting instead the same C++ optimization would have applied in Java as well.

Does that mean the java version would have been just as fast? It seems in general though that Java is just as fast as C++ unless you are an ultimate C++ expert.