Honestly though I'm tired of Lookout Mobile doing this fear mongering. I'll give them credit though, they are smart guys -- and based on their defcon presentation, they know a lot about Android sercurity. But stop with the scare tactic PR news stories. This would be akin to saying "Virus found on The Pirate Bay, news at 11." I know they need PR because they are a startup, but c'mon.
Your comparing 2010 (2009?) Apple profit with Valve's 2005 profit, you need to read the article more carefully. Vavle is likely making in the $250m/750 range at present.
That's not true for the mobile/Android Market stuff. They also have 7 countries for publishers for the launch of this service (From the Goog blog link: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. -- did you read the link? I'm betting not ).
Anyways, your criticism seems a bit off. I'm sure those 7 will increase as they get the details sorted. So while maybe you can do a worldwide simultaneous launch of a financial transaction system, us mere mortals understand that some things take time to get underway.
Here's the Android Market:
Currently, developers in the below countries may register as Google Checkout merchants and sell paid applications:
1. Agentina
2. Australia
3. Austria
4. Belgium
6. Brazil
7. Canada
8. Czech Republic
9. Denmark
10. Finland
11. France
12. Germany
13. HongKong
14. India
15. Ireland
16. Israel
17. Italy
18. Japan
19. Mexico
20. Netherlands
21. New Zeland
22. Norway
23. Poland (Don't forget about Poland!)
24. Portugal
25. Russia
26. Singapore
27. South Korea
28. Spain
29. Sweden
30. Switzerland
31. Taiwan
32. United Kingdom
33. United States
Indeed, I hope Motorola and Sony are paying attention.
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The Moto Droid line tend to use more metal shells (aluminum?) but I think that plastic HTC phones are better quality. The G2 for instance, or the Nexus One are very nice. Samsung's build quality is kinda meh, and while I havent heard any problems with Sony build quialty, they are the worst for upgrades to the OS. But these are just opinions. Best thing is to go to a store and try them out and see how they feel. Personally I would reccomend HTC over any of the others as they have decent quality and open bootloaders and are by far the best at sending out OS updates.
You'd also think a nice zoom lens on a camera at the right angle could capture the info needed for what most snooping eyes needed. Also, I suppose it's due dilligence to worry about wireless hacking, but maybe they should get an Adroid and cook their own ROM with stronger/different encryption? I also cant imagine they havent been using any sort of tablet PC with some type of stylus before the ipad came along. Either way, an IPad, a tablet, or whatever, they should be fine if they take the right precautions.
While you're correct, the one permission you speak of has to do with any app wanting to support Android 1.5 devices. Because they never had such a permission, if you say your app wants to support Android 1.5, the "Read phone state and Identity permission" is added automatically.
The real answer is that there is room for more than one kind of "computing." Some people update spreadsheets, others witch videos, some play Angry Birds. The most interesting part of all this is that while there has been some canibalization of laptops by tablets, there is also an expansion in this market so that some people own both. The market is growing to accomodate new devices.
As for the UI scalling I think the reality of difference in what you can do with 10" screens vs 3 is vast. For some thing it certainly wont matter, but most apps will WANT to take advantage of the extra room to give the user a better experience. For example, look at the mail app on the Galaxy Tab as opposed to the one on stock Android.
Overall I like it but agree so much white space makes it a bit high contrast for me, but not a huge deal. Mostly I was hoping for a nice (optional) mobile skin.
They used to but they took it out in favor of only allowing people to star items. Why they did this is beyond me. Maybe it gave too much of a chance to game the system. But honestly, it was the only thing that made my searches relevant again. It was the only truly useful feature they've added since, well ever.
When I search for a few coding terms I dont want 10 different sites that have scraped their contant from stackoverflow, I dont want 10 representations of the same unanswered email, or 10 experts-exchange copy-cats. I dont want sites that just show you your own google search terms and some related terms. I want the not-so-well known blogs that people dont always link to.
If we could ban that stuff we'd be so much better off. Google could crowdsource spam control and search quality. They do it for Gmail so why not results. It's not that hard really. I have much more of an inclination to ban something than to pollute my favorites list with stuff i think is ok-ish. Even if it became too easy to game (ala page rank did?) then they could make it not count except for that one user.
Considering the past mess-ups of AVG, Norton, McAfee and probably pretty much all the others, it could be argued that anti virus apps are the real threat;)
Hopefully they dont read this and declare me a virus though!
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They already (sadly) make it: http://blogs.mcafee.com/enterprise/mobile/mcafee-for-android-a-mobile-security-update
Honestly though I'm tired of Lookout Mobile doing this fear mongering. I'll give them credit though, they are smart guys -- and based on their defcon presentation, they know a lot about Android sercurity. But stop with the scare tactic PR news stories. This would be akin to saying "Virus found on The Pirate Bay, news at 11." I know they need PR because they are a startup, but c'mon.
Your comparing 2010 (2009?) Apple profit with Valve's 2005 profit, you need to read the article more carefully. Vavle is likely making in the $250m/750 range at present.
Apple made less than 2B in 2005 profit, so you're off by about 12-13B.
Anyways, your criticism seems a bit off. I'm sure those 7 will increase as they get the details sorted. So while maybe you can do a worldwide simultaneous launch of a financial transaction system, us mere mortals understand that some things take time to get underway.
Here's the Android Market:
Currently, developers in the below countries may register as Google Checkout merchants and sell paid applications:
http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=150324
/Poland -- never forget.
1. Agentina
2. Australia
3. Austria
4. Belgium
6. Brazil
7. Canada
8. Czech Republic
9. Denmark
10. Finland
11. France
12. Germany
13. HongKong
14. India
15. Ireland
16. Israel
17. Italy
18. Japan
19. Mexico
20. Netherlands
21. New Zeland
22. Norway
23. Poland (Don't forget about Poland!)
24. Portugal
25. Russia
26. Singapore
27. South Korea
28. Spain
29. Sweden
30. Switzerland
31. Taiwan
32. United Kingdom
33. United States
Do you work for Sony or SanDisk? Because I was gonna come and post the same question only to find my post has already been preloaded on to Slashdot. :\
Yeah! Amen!
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Indeed, I hope Motorola and Sony are paying attention.
The Moto Droid line tend to use more metal shells (aluminum?) but I think that plastic HTC phones are better quality. The G2 for instance, or the Nexus One are very nice. Samsung's build quality is kinda meh, and while I havent heard any problems with Sony build quialty, they are the worst for upgrades to the OS. But these are just opinions. Best thing is to go to a store and try them out and see how they feel. Personally I would reccomend HTC over any of the others as they have decent quality and open bootloaders and are by far the best at sending out OS updates.
Toast.makeText ( this, "Nokia", Toast.LENGTH_LONG ).show();
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I know, Microsoft really needs to instal a dupe plugin for slashdot. Or maybe it could be part of the HTML5 spec. http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/02/175227/Microsoft-Makes-Chrome-Play-H264-Video
The Flash Player can report your system info.
Someone linked to this from the Ars article on the subject, seems quite relevant: How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?
Is your name Ed? Then, no.
You'd also think a nice zoom lens on a camera at the right angle could capture the info needed for what most snooping eyes needed. Also, I suppose it's due dilligence to worry about wireless hacking, but maybe they should get an Adroid and cook their own ROM with stronger/different encryption? I also cant imagine they havent been using any sort of tablet PC with some type of stylus before the ipad came along. Either way, an IPad, a tablet, or whatever, they should be fine if they take the right precautions.
While you're correct, the one permission you speak of has to do with any app wanting to support Android 1.5 devices. Because they never had such a permission, if you say your app wants to support Android 1.5, the "Read phone state and Identity permission" is added automatically.
Source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/whats-new-in-android-16-donut-part-2-developer-features/1369?pg=3
I wrote some info about how important the various permissions are also here:
http://alostpacket.com/2010/02/20/how-to-be-safe-find-trusted-apps-avoid-viruses/
There was a chart put together about manfacturer upgrade rates recently, that may shed some insight on this. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9204779/Android_upgrades_Manufacturer_comparison_?taxonomyId=75&pageNumber=1
However tablets are a bit of a different ballgame, how much different is hard to say though.
The real answer is that there is room for more than one kind of "computing." Some people update spreadsheets, others witch videos, some play Angry Birds. The most interesting part of all this is that while there has been some canibalization of laptops by tablets, there is also an expansion in this market so that some people own both. The market is growing to accomodate new devices. As for the UI scalling I think the reality of difference in what you can do with 10" screens vs 3 is vast. For some thing it certainly wont matter, but most apps will WANT to take advantage of the extra room to give the user a better experience. For example, look at the mail app on the Galaxy Tab as opposed to the one on stock Android.
FF4 b10, it seems it doesnt indent as much as it should. Not a big deal, but some people like/and are used to that.
I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about my wonderful new application!!!
Overall I like it but agree so much white space makes it a bit high contrast for me, but not a huge deal. Mostly I was hoping for a nice (optional) mobile skin.
They used to but they took it out in favor of only allowing people to star items. Why they did this is beyond me. Maybe it gave too much of a chance to game the system. But honestly, it was the only thing that made my searches relevant again. It was the only truly useful feature they've added since, well ever.
When I search for a few coding terms I dont want 10 different sites that have scraped their contant from stackoverflow, I dont want 10 representations of the same unanswered email, or 10 experts-exchange copy-cats. I dont want sites that just show you your own google search terms and some related terms. I want the not-so-well known blogs that people dont always link to.
If we could ban that stuff we'd be so much better off. Google could crowdsource spam control and search quality. They do it for Gmail so why not results. It's not that hard really. I have much more of an inclination to ban something than to pollute my favorites list with stuff i think is ok-ish. Even if it became too easy to game (ala page rank did?) then they could make it not count except for that one user.
Considering the past mess-ups of AVG, Norton, McAfee and probably pretty much all the others, it could be argued that anti virus apps are the real threat ;)
Hopefully they dont read this and declare me a virus though!