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Android Co-Founder Andy Rubin Leaving Google
An anonymous reader writes: The Wall Street Journal reports that Andy Rubin is leaving Google. Rubin co-founded Android in 2003 and stayed on when the company was acquired by Google in 2005. Rubin led Android through the acquisition of over a billion users, until 2013 when he moved to Google's robotics division. He was replaced in the Android division by Sundar Pichai, who continues in charge of that, Chrome, Google+, and many other products. Rubin's robotics role will be filled by James Kuffner. "Mr. Rubin's departure is a blow to Google's robotics efforts. However, Mr. Kuffner is experienced in the sector, having worked on human-like robot technology for over two decades, including seven years at Carnegie Mellon University and five years on Google's self-driving car project."
How come when I update my monster.com profile it's not news?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
If you can genuinely create good, patentable products, it's moronic to work for a large company and hand them the rights. Create and patent them yourself, and get all the financial windfall from doing so.
When I can plug in an iOS device into the USB port of computer and navigate its directory structure then I'll consider iOS as advanced as Android.
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Apparently he will NOT be missed by anyone in the robotics division...
Wait, what?
I have two Android devices, and an iOS device ... and I've only recently retired my iPad 1.
In what way is Android playing catch up with iOS? Are they features people actually use or even know about?
Because, I would say pound for pound, feature for feature, my Android devices do as much as my iOS devices.
I don't pick up my Android phone or tablet and think "boy, if it only had this feature that iOS has, it would be a complete device".
In fact, I'm not aware of a single feature I ever use or care about that iOS has which Android doesn't.
For that matter, I'd be hard pressed to tell you a feature that either has that the other doesn't that I've ever wished was there.
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Ooooh, files and directory browsing. That's what I enjoy doing with my computer! Fun fun fun!
What was the first version that didn't?
No, seriously ... my up-to-date Nexus 7 allows this.
So, either you know something I don't, or you're making an unfounded accusation.
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In what way is Android playing catch up with iOS? Are they features people actually use or even know about?
Well, let's see: how about not letting Facetwitterlinkbook have access to absolutely everything on your device because their app demands so many permissions and you can't deniy specific ones?
What I enjoy is having folders like Documents, Videos and Music, and being able to copy documents, videos and music into them, rather than having everything stored in app-centric folders which are hidden from me. What I like is not having to use a horror story like iTunes to copy video files, ePubs and music.
I bought a Nexus 5 and 7 last year, handed my iPhone to my daughter, and have never looked back. The Nexus 5, in particular, is just a little over half the price of a a comparable iPhone and is a helluva lot more usable. And if I really need something from the iTunes store, like the upcoming Pink Floyd record, I know I'll be able to play the music on my Android devices.
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Settings->Privacy->AppName
Your just stupid if you didn't know this already since its regularly brought up as a shitty thing that android lacks.
And you've never used an iOS device either ... Since the OS asks you before allowing the app to do things. It's a system that requires you to opt in, and the app has to work if you opt-out or it gets rejected from the App Store unless the functionality is central to the app.
A camera app will not get approved if it won't work when denied access to your contacts, as an example.
Android is designed to pretend you have options when you don't. It's all or nothing and the permissions aren't even fine grained anymore, they are broken into large groups so updates can do all sorts of stuff that they didn't originally.
Android is decidedly anti-owner in this respect where as iOS is the opposite, decidedly pro-owner
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So which are you then, an asshole, a douchebag, or just some useless sack of shit with a big mouth?
Yes, there are the settings which Apple has placed under there for what they list as privacy. But what there isn't is a "show be a given app, show me all the permissions for that app, and let me selectively disable them". Android doesn't have that either.
My problem, is I have no idea if there are other permissions Apple hasn't decided are privacy related or not. Like sending information to a 3rd party site when it's supposed to be a flashlight.
So, why don't you stop acting like a dick, and try acting like an adult instead of the childish idiot you seem to prefer?
I have both an Android device and iOS device sitting on the table in front of me ... so maybe instead of you just being a loud mouth asshole, you give me the benefit of not assuming I'm being a troll? Something which I'm afraid I can't extend to you.
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Those settings in iOS, while they might not be the level of control you are looking for, are more than what Android offers. So that answers your orignal question of "In what way is Android playing catch up with iOS? Are they features people actually use or even know about?"
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make sure usb debugging is disabled under developer options, that stumped me for a while