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This one actually looks like a legit grievance on AT&T's part

http://androidandme.com/2016/0...

You have access to the Play Store if you download and install the freely-distributed Google-apps zip.

Congrats, you(and the site you downloaded it from) just broke the law by committing copyright infringement and piracy.
http://androidandme.com/2009/0...

Also, http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

No, I'm talking about this:

http://androidandme.com/2013/0...

Google is able to update Android by updating Google Play. This is actually a good thing. I'm just pointing out it seems hypocritical to bitch at Apple saying:

If you buy a product from Apple, it's not really yours. Oh, you own the lump of hardware, but the apps, the content, the OS? No, you do not own any of that.

when Google does the same thing.

ARM is capable of performing at or near Jaguar levels.

That's something you are going to have to back up.

Comparison here. Okay, so the gap is a bit bigger than I remembered, but it's still in a similar ballpark. Unfortunately I couldn't find a more exhaustive comparison between them right now.

There's plenty of games out there already for iOS/Android so the architecture isn't a roadblock.

Plenty of games out there for 68K too. That does not mean it is as capable is x86. I do not care what games you play on your phone. They are not the same class as big PC games like Half Life. It is a simple fact that x86 has more raw power than ARM. There is no technical reason ARM could not be improved to a point that it is as powerful as x86 but it is not there now.

Architecture is a roadblock when one architecture provides serious performance gains.

Is Battlefield 3 on Tegra 5 capable enough for you?

even if android was sluggish, which it isnt, it still would not be worth the crap that is windows phone.

http://androidandme.com/2013/07/devices/last-years-nexus-7-may-get-lag-fix-in-4-3-ota/

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/project-butter-improves-android-4-1s-speed/

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/project-butter-improves-android-4-1s-speed/

Nobody did market "cores", as in a small number of parts of a GPU.
Here's one example
Here's another.
Here's another

None of these were before Apple started marketing cores and refer to the same type of "core" that Apple invented.
Anyway, I was talking about phones and tablets. Apple is the first one use use the word "core" while describing its phone GPU when announcing a new phone.

Apple could easily double their CPU performance because they were already 50% slower than the competition.
64 bit is also more power hungry than 32 bit. A 64 bit register uses twice as much power as a 32 bit register. If you use it to make computation on small integers (which is what 99% of applications in the app store do), you use twice the power for no benefit.

Nobody did market "cores", as in a small number of parts of a GPU.
Here's one example
Here's another.
Here's another
Sure seem to be a lot of nobody's around.

What about a fallacy. Just because they doubled the performance doesn't mean that it's because of 64 bit. It's more likely a better architecture and increased clock speed.

It's more likely the whole combination of features. Apple has gotten very good at optimizing performance for mobile devices by cleverly matching the capabilities of their chips to their software. I doubt if going to 64 bit is solely responsible for the increased performance, but I also doubt if it's irrelevant. A doubling of effective performance is a big change for going from one generation to the next of a chip. Apple certainly didn't double clock speed--that would be too expensive in terms of battery usage.

I think that the notion that 64-bit offers little per formance improvement aside from a larger address space comes from people who are more familiar with PCs, which have loads of RAM to play with. But RAM is power-hungry, so cell phones are RAM-constrained. As a result, cell phones are constantly shuffling data back and forth between RAM and Flash memory, and it needs to do this very fast, because users are impatient with lag in a mobile device. And moving data is one place where wider registers yields a big benefit.

I was planning to pick one up until I read this.

At $200, a Google Nexus is disposable technology.

http://androidandme.com/2013/06/opinions/one-year-later-the-nexus-7-has-gone-from-the-best-to-worst-tablet-ive-ever-owned/

And when will be installable versions of Ubuntu Mobile for existing phones, and for which ones, besides Galaxy Nexus?

I don't think it will be available for the N9, at least, not very soon (nokia drivers) but for (other) popular Android phones it could be released before october.

Not surprising, iD Software had DOOM removed from Android market a few years ago.

http://androidandme.com/2011/09/news/intel-and-google-announce-android-x86-optimization/
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2109367/df-intel-outlines-developer-tools-android-tablet-integrationhttp://www.itproportal.com/2011/12/05/intel-google-design-android-smartphones-run-atom-processors/
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/105189-intels-x86-android-smartphone-and-tablet-plans-exposed
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5770/lava-xolo-x900-review-the-first-intel-medfield-phone
http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/24/3040706/intel-x86-image-for-android-ice-cream-sandwich-sdk

>With Windows Phone Nokia has to do whatever Microsoft wants. They have very little wiggle room.

Nokia negotiated the right to change any part of the WP OS.

>With Android they can go to any extreme, from working directly with Google to forking the whole thing like Amazon.

You mean the same Google that also owns Motorola? Or the same Google that gave preferential access of new releases to Samsung first for the latest two major revisions?

http://androidandme.com/2012/04/smartphones-2/google-picks-samsung-for-4th-generation-nexus-phone/

Say what you will about MS, but they never played favorites with or bought OEMs.

Not to mention that the Kindle Fire cannot access the Google Marketplace and is doomed to be a few versions behind the latest Android while Amazon waits for Google to throw code over the wall at release(the same code that Samsung/Motorola has access to for months).

Your analogy falls apart in recent years though, when you look at the popularity of the iPad and iPhone. Still closed systems, but more "open" options still can't touch them, sales-wise.

Right....

"Mobile operating systems:
Gartner's Q3 2011 unit numbers total 115 million, with Google's Android shipping on 60 million smartphones, Nokia's Symbian on 19 million and Apple's iOS on 17 million.[32"
"Predictions for 2012: (Gartner): 630 million units; Android 49% / iOS 19% / BlackBerry 13% / Windows 11% / Symbian 5% / Other 3%.[37] (Taiwan/Market Intelligence Center): Android 40% / iOS 19% / Windows 17% / Other 24%.[38] (IDC) 582 million units total.[39]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

"Apple's iOS gained 1.4 percent market share between October of 2011 and January of 2012. That put Apple in second place, behind Google's Android which grew its U.S. market share 2.3 percentage points in the same period."
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/03/08/ios_android_increase_smartphone_market_share_while_all_others_lose_ground.html

"According to the latest number by IDC, Android gained significant market share in 2011 and is expected to gradually increase its dominance in the tablet sector over the next few years. IDC predicts that Android tablets will overtake iOS by 2015,"
http://androidandme.com/2012/03/tablets-2/android-tablet-market-share-to-eclipse-ios-by-2015/

This is why anti-Apple sites only show you the front of the frame, to make you think the whole thing looked like an iPad. The patent does not just concern the front, but the whole design together, which must be copied in order to get an injunction.

Apparently, that's not the case according to the German judge (and apparently Apple):

According to Judge Johanna Brueckner-Hofmann, Samsung “didn’t keep enough distance from the Apple design.” While the back of the tablets are quite different, the front part of the Galaxy Tab is “nearly identical” to the iPad.

(Also quoted here and here.)

The cease and desist was specifically in relation to the Google Apps part : http://androidandme.com/2009/09/hacks/cyanogenmod-in-trouble/

> With their war chest of patents.. they could litigate any serious competitor into the ground.

Not sure where you're coming from with that. (the bulk of) Java was open sourced in 2008:

      "Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf brings news that Sun Microsystems will be removing the
      last restrictions on Java to make it completely open source."
      http://developers.slashdot.org/story/08/04/23/2037220/Sun-to-Fully-Open-Source-Java

Under the GPLv2, in a simplified nutshell, you do whateverinthell you want with the code and then make your changes available for everyone else. The GPL *is* a legal binding contract and whether Oracle (or anyone else) likes it or not, they can't take back what has already been released nor can they prosecute someone for monkeying with GPL'd code which has already been released.

That said, I have no idea what Oracle's beef is with google other than classic microsoft paid-for rape-and-pillage of the US legal system. I do know many,many of Oracles claims have been thrown out:
http://androidandme.com/2011/05/news/judge-orders-oracle-to-toss-out-most-of-the-patent-claims-against-google/

Regarding the broader tablet/mobile market, many gestures are now patented. Apple has at least 15 gesture-related patents, Some others have suggested that other interface designers are reluctant to implement identical gestures, for fear of Apple's patent portfolio.

And quite a lot crapper. shitty touch sensor and GPU on Nexus One really let it down

Indeed, and this is the reason I'm graveyarding my N1 for a Desire HD. Developing multitouch games on a quasi-multitouch device is unfortunately unacceptable. The 3G reception on the N1 is also abysmal.
http://androidandme.com/2010/03/news/is-multitouch-broken-on-the-nexus-one/
(Link seems to be down at the moment)

I will say this though, despite thinking that the whole "xG" thing is silly, after seeing the new T-Mobile spokesmodel, I'm tempted to buy whatever she is selling regardless of whatever number of "G's" it has stamped on it. :-)

Much of the "skyrocketing" marketshare is on cheap, lower-class phones can can barely run things.

Not according to this.

Over half of android phones are high end phones. That doesn't include the "other" segment of the pie chart which will include some high-end phones.

Hmmm I'd think they'd at least want something ruggedized like this one that already meets military specs. There's no way a stock iPhone or more 'droid phones would stand up to any kind of abused in the field.

All I know is I'm in love with the new T-Mobile Spokesmodel and I'm buying whatever she tells me to.

PHP advent 2010 (Or on twitter)

Angry Birds (Seasons) features an advent calendar with a new level released every day.

More?

far better in terms of operating like a normal company with blackberries, etc.

How Smartphone Users See Each Other

His question begs more questions -- do his employees travel? Do they stream video? Do they do heavy processing? What OSes do their applications run best on? Can you virtualize OSes or will that overhead affect the heavy-duty nature of the applications? Do you have the know-how to build your own central authentication service using LDAP, Kerberos, etc? Or would you better served with an Active Directory? And would it make more sense to pay for Cloud-based AD from Microsoft rather than maintaining in-house servers? How much people-power do you have for IT?

You just have to know the right questions to ask, then your infrastructure defines itself.

"Since when have iPhone been about following the trend?"

True, seems like they've been setting the pace. Touchscreen phones were pretty much non-existent outside of the Palm and a few Windows Mobile 6 phones until the iPhone came out, and even those phones were highly dependent on a stylus, iPhone was the first touchscreen without a stylus. Ever since the original iPhone everyone's been playing catch-up, and while others offer faster cpus and more megapixels, no one offers the 200,000+ apps or the huge fan based and the chance to be a millionaire app developer. In fact some of the largest Android game developers have boycott the Android Market. Do I care if the camera is 3mp or 5mp? No. Do I care if the phone offers the apps I want? Of course, these aren't just phones anymore, they're pocket PCs

All OS's have security flaws. How else do Android users "root" their phones ?

most consumers buy benefits, not features.

You are provably wrong.

The endless list of would-be iPod/iPhone killers that touted better features but failed to have an impact in the market are evidence of this.

Evidence of what?

See also:

http://androidandme.com/2009/11/applications/swype-keyboard-coming-to-android-in-2010/

Apologies if this is old hat - hey, it's just bytes of info.

Well.. just as I said.. http://androidandme.com/2010/02/news/all-u-s-android-phones-to-receive-android-2-1-but-some-will-require-a-wipe/ ...But that doesn't mean it should be done... I hope they tweak it for my phone properly, or I'll just pass.

Most devices (except maybe the G1, due to hardware limitations) should be able to get upgraded to android 2.1 ... maybe even as soon as next month.
http://androidandme.com/2010/01/phones/t-mobile-mytouch-3g-users-to-get-android-2-1-this-spring/

It is certainly possible that some manufacturers may opt not to release updates to their devices. Maybe they don't want to dedicate resources to "old" products, maybe they want to drive people to buy the new ones. Can't really fault Google for that... I think they've actually been pretty good with backporting things to their older Android releases (like GMM 4 for Android 1.6 with just about everything except maybe voice navigation), but can't force all developers to support the older releases.

oops, wrong bad news story link. that's the one I was aiming for. A source release would fix that.

What all the Android fanbois don't know, or tell you, is that Android has a 256 MB app storage limit. While Apple limits you to 2 GB for your maximum app size download. Google, just WTF where you thinking?

This doesn't seem to be an Android limitation - it is a limitation caused by the flash configuration that Motorola have used. On Android, the apps are just stored as individual files in the /data/app directory; other than the size of the filesystem that contains this directory, I can't see there being any limitation. Also, there are several methods of storing apps on the sdcard. For example, the CyanogenMod firmware does this as standard.

What all the Android fanbois don't know, or tell you, is that Android has a 256 MB app storage limit. While Apple limits you to 2 GB for your maximum app size download. Google, just WTF where you thinking?

There's a lot of speculation that T-Mobile G1 owners might not get the update, which would suck.

What I find irritating is that the G1 even HAS a "system partition" that turned out to be too small. I have dozens of CentOS 5.x server installations that have precisely THREE hard partitions - boot, swap, and /. Phones are single-user, single-boot, SOLID STATE MEMORY devices. The various reasons and excuses for multiple partition schemes mostly ceased to be relevant a long time ago and are especially pointless on this type of platform.

There's a lot of speculation that T-Mobile G1 owners might not get the update, which would suck.

Hey AC, The lawsuit was a cease a desist on including copyrighted software in his releases. Namely Gmail and other Google Apps.

Not to mention that it's now moot. :)

You mean something like this phone?

Apparently "Sholes" wasn't considered to be a very good name for the phone.

More info.

You are mistaken. Maybe you're just running too much in the background (which is different from having many applications stored)

If the amount of available RAM would decrease much below 192MB total you would not be able to start new applications at all ;)

http://forums.androidandme.com/topic/how-much-free-memory-is-good

Say what? There's already one coming: (gizmodo link) in a month .

Open handset alliance has members of basically every phone provider, so don't think that a singular google phone will, nor will have to, take over the iphone. They'll simply have one to fit every person's preference, unlike the iphone.

http://androidandme.com/2009/09/news/10-reasons-to-start-saving-for-the-verizon-motorola-sholes-android-phone/ I think the current word on the street is early December?