The GPS works on it's own in the new one (the old one relied on your phone for position data). A lot of runners really wanted it in the watch so they didn't need to carry their phone while running. So both they and the muggers can now rejoice.
They have/had an ad network, but the are not an ad company the way Google is. They are also very strict about collecting user information when compared to other ad providers.
I'm kind of bummed about this, I had a small hope that Intel could turn this product around but spinning it back out will kind of kills that dream. It's not that I have any love for it, but I have customers that use it so I'm stuck dealing with it in my job.
... but anytime I was at a desk typing I'd have to take it off because it simply wasn't comfortable hitting the desk, or worse me when using a laptop.
I always had this problem with any watch, but the Apple Milanese band (or the $21 knock off I got on Amazon) is the best watch band I've ever owned. Light, thin, breaths so no sweaty wrist ring, and completely flat across the bottom of the wrist so it doesn't bother me while typing. It's the first band in decades I can wear all day.
So Apple will actually get people to actually wear a GPS now.
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I really don't get this. People always bag on Apple for stuff like this but they have never shown any interest in spying on their customers. They are not in the ad business like some other mobile OS makers, and they have shown that they are not exactly friendly to governments either. Yes, it has a GPS because, surprise, users, particularly runners, asked for it. Begged for it. Yelled and screamed for it. Not because Apple wants to track your every movement. Untighten the tinfoil a bit.
Do voice "minutes" really matter anymore anyway? At least in the US the vast majority (not all plans, but most of them from the big 4) of available plans already include unlimited minutes because no one talks on the phone anymore. It's all about milking users for that data (and this change will benefit carriers since all those VOIP calls will be over the data when the user is off WiFi).
Exactly. It's one thing when you are ROFLStomping the opposition like we tend to do these days, but if we find ourselves in another conflict like WW2 the temptation to step over that line may be too great to ignore, if for no other reason that the fear that the other side will step over it first. Even if we managed to stay out of a full on nuclear exchange, we may bring something to existence we wished we hadn't.
This. We get stories like this a couple times a year and every time Google doesn't honor the request. FUCK THAT. Honor those requests and make them jump through all the hoops anyone else would need to. But hey, like you said, the big companies are playing by a different rulebook.
If a free program wanted to do this, it would be readily visible and available for inspection to determine what exactly it's doing.
And then any users of the free program could simply edit this functionality out and distribute the edited binary freely. Just another day in the proprietary software hell.
Uh, it is a free program. Maybe you are conflating "Free" with open source? They are not the same.
So, couple of things. First, it's the Android version that is the target of this lawsuit, not the iOS version. Second, on iOS anytime an app is using the microphone, the phone's status bar turns read and if the application is in the background there is a persistent, flashing notification under the status bar showing which application is using it. Tap the notification and it takes you back to that application.
You might want to re-read the posts before yours for context. You can NOT use the DMCA for trademark claims. DMCA has no provisions for trademark infringement. I didn't say you couldn't pursue action against someone for trademark infringement but trademarks and copyrights are very different things and conflating them is just wrong. You also cannot copyright individual words or short phrases, sorry I thought the very specific example made that clear. Yes, you can copyright a book, but you can't copyright a single word even if it's something you made up. Another example is the recent trademark spat between AT&T and Citi Group over "Thanks". Many people were claiming that Citi "copyrighted" thanks, which if somehow true would be incredibly restrictive since it would pretty much preclude anyone from using the word. Luckily this isn't the case, since a single word can't be copyrighted. It was a trademark though, so the usage restrictions had to do with the category Citi Group had trademarks over, and it's use in commerce.
Just because lay people use it that way doesn't make it right. In law, language is not "imprecise". It's quite the opposite and we are talking about a legal matter here. There are huge differences between copyright and trademark, and those differences come into play here. You can't copyright a cat, but you can trademark its likeness. Just like you can't copyright words, but you can trademark them. If you do trademark them, there are restrictions on how they can be used in commerce, but not in other areas such as writing. For example Monster holds a trademark on, Monster. That doesn't mean they can DMCA this comment because I used their trademarked word. Additionally, DMCA cannot, legally (though that won't stop people from trying) be used to take down content that violates a trademark.
Yes, but it depends on who took the picture as to who owns the copyright for that photo. If the company hired their own photog, they already own the copyright to the images that they used, not the cat owners. The cat owners have a trademark on the cat and it's likeness. Lumping those all into "copyright" is wrong since there are vast differences between copyright and trademark law. They are NOT the same thing and the terms are not interchangeable. Just ask Captain Marvel.
This is already a feature in Android as of Marshmallow, which allows you to have the traditional removable SD card format, or essentially set it up on LVM and roll it into your phone's internal volume group. Recommended with fast cards only.
Too bad it only half works. I have apps move themselves back to the phone storage when they update all the time. Or just vanish, needing to be reinstalled and reconfigured.
You are right, and this is a trademark and breach of contract lawsuit. The internet gets these confused all the time when reporting on this stuff, but even the summary says so. Other people in these comments just assume copyright for some reason.
Stay off CDMA networks if you want an unlocked phone. Verizon used their CDMA network as an excuse to block non-Verizon devices for years until the spectrum auction terms forced them to start accepting them on their new bands. The reason I bought the Nexus, and then the unlocked X 2013 and X Pure was specifically because i saw how carriers were fucking up the upgrade cycles on Android.
Yup, I didn't RTFA. Also, whoever wrote that article called it "profit" in one place and "industry share" somewhere else.
Reading more closely it appears that neither the 75% nor 30% are a share of profit though. They're the companies' the share of industry wide operating income, which has little to do with profit anyway.
Doesn't change the fact that the article states that Apple had 75% of industry profits while Samsung had 30%, which is what the OP pointed out. Also, even if it's their share of overall industry operating income, it's the same problem, 75%+30%=105%
Galaxy Nexus was a bit over 18 months old when J came out, and Google decided to abandon it. Not sure why it coming out before the Moto X would come into play there. Not to mention the GNex was a massive pile of shit of a phone to begin with. So yea, I'm not buying another Nexus because Google can, and has in the past, decided they just can't be bothered with the older devices.
My Moto X 2013 was upgraded from J all the way to L as opposed to my Galaxy Nexus that was upgraded to.... nothing. 18 months and they abandoned it. My X Pure will get M and (hopefully) on more beyond that, but again, Lenovo. I'm less concerned with how fast vs ever getting them. Google has burned me once with the Nexus line. Done with that.
Yea I learned my lesson with the Galaxy Nexus. Like all their other products Google is happy to drop it when they get bored and move on. Screw that. I've had better luck with Motorola but I don't expect that to be the case going forward either now that Lenovo has fully assimilated them.
Apple accounted for 75 percent of the smartphone industry's profits in the second quarter, but that's down from more than 90 percent a year ago due to Samsung's Galaxy device lineup, according to Canaccord Genuity.
Samsung's Galaxy S7 launch and the Note 7 follow-up likely indicate that profits will continue to do well, said Cannaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley in a research note. The other item that may ding Apple's industry profit is that customers are delaying purchases ahead of the iPhone 7 launch. Add it up and Samsung has captured more than 30 percent of industry profits in the second quarter.
I understand the possible conflict of interest in working with ex-CIA, although the fact that they'd admit working for the CIA seems dangerous and sketchy, but I don't understand the Applebaum thing. Are folks against sexual harassment/misconduct, or are they against investigating harassment/misconduct?
Perfectly reasonable question since the summary really doesn't make it clear. Unfortunately you seem to have trigger someone and got modded -1 troll. Welcome to the internet.
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The GPS works on it's own in the new one (the old one relied on your phone for position data). A lot of runners really wanted it in the watch so they didn't need to carry their phone while running. So both they and the muggers can now rejoice.
They have/had an ad network, but the are not an ad company the way Google is. They are also very strict about collecting user information when compared to other ad providers.
Well so much for John getting his name back!
I'm kind of bummed about this, I had a small hope that Intel could turn this product around but spinning it back out will kind of kills that dream. It's not that I have any love for it, but I have customers that use it so I'm stuck dealing with it in my job.
... but anytime I was at a desk typing I'd have to take it off because it simply wasn't comfortable hitting the desk, or worse me when using a laptop.
I always had this problem with any watch, but the Apple Milanese band (or the $21 knock off I got on Amazon) is the best watch band I've ever owned. Light, thin, breaths so no sweaty wrist ring, and completely flat across the bottom of the wrist so it doesn't bother me while typing. It's the first band in decades I can wear all day.
So Apple will actually get people to actually wear a GPS now.
All Hail The True Masters
I really don't get this. People always bag on Apple for stuff like this but they have never shown any interest in spying on their customers. They are not in the ad business like some other mobile OS makers, and they have shown that they are not exactly friendly to governments either. Yes, it has a GPS because, surprise, users, particularly runners, asked for it. Begged for it. Yelled and screamed for it. Not because Apple wants to track your every movement. Untighten the tinfoil a bit.
Do voice "minutes" really matter anymore anyway? At least in the US the vast majority (not all plans, but most of them from the big 4) of available plans already include unlimited minutes because no one talks on the phone anymore. It's all about milking users for that data (and this change will benefit carriers since all those VOIP calls will be over the data when the user is off WiFi).
Exactly. It's one thing when you are ROFLStomping the opposition like we tend to do these days, but if we find ourselves in another conflict like WW2 the temptation to step over that line may be too great to ignore, if for no other reason that the fear that the other side will step over it first. Even if we managed to stay out of a full on nuclear exchange, we may bring something to existence we wished we hadn't.
This. We get stories like this a couple times a year and every time Google doesn't honor the request. FUCK THAT. Honor those requests and make them jump through all the hoops anyone else would need to. But hey, like you said, the big companies are playing by a different rulebook.
If a free program wanted to do this, it would be readily visible and available for inspection to determine what exactly it's doing.
And then any users of the free program could simply edit this functionality out and distribute the edited binary freely. Just another day in the proprietary software hell.
Uh, it is a free program. Maybe you are conflating "Free" with open source? They are not the same.
so move along, nothing to see or hear.
So, couple of things. First, it's the Android version that is the target of this lawsuit, not the iOS version. Second, on iOS anytime an app is using the microphone, the phone's status bar turns read and if the application is in the background there is a persistent, flashing notification under the status bar showing which application is using it. Tap the notification and it takes you back to that application.
You might want to re-read the posts before yours for context. You can NOT use the DMCA for trademark claims. DMCA has no provisions for trademark infringement. I didn't say you couldn't pursue action against someone for trademark infringement but trademarks and copyrights are very different things and conflating them is just wrong. You also cannot copyright individual words or short phrases, sorry I thought the very specific example made that clear. Yes, you can copyright a book, but you can't copyright a single word even if it's something you made up. Another example is the recent trademark spat between AT&T and Citi Group over "Thanks". Many people were claiming that Citi "copyrighted" thanks, which if somehow true would be incredibly restrictive since it would pretty much preclude anyone from using the word. Luckily this isn't the case, since a single word can't be copyrighted. It was a trademark though, so the usage restrictions had to do with the category Citi Group had trademarks over, and it's use in commerce.
Just because lay people use it that way doesn't make it right. In law, language is not "imprecise". It's quite the opposite and we are talking about a legal matter here. There are huge differences between copyright and trademark, and those differences come into play here. You can't copyright a cat, but you can trademark its likeness. Just like you can't copyright words, but you can trademark them. If you do trademark them, there are restrictions on how they can be used in commerce, but not in other areas such as writing. For example Monster holds a trademark on, Monster. That doesn't mean they can DMCA this comment because I used their trademarked word. Additionally, DMCA cannot, legally (though that won't stop people from trying) be used to take down content that violates a trademark.
Yes, but it depends on who took the picture as to who owns the copyright for that photo. If the company hired their own photog, they already own the copyright to the images that they used, not the cat owners. The cat owners have a trademark on the cat and it's likeness. Lumping those all into "copyright" is wrong since there are vast differences between copyright and trademark law. They are NOT the same thing and the terms are not interchangeable. Just ask Captain Marvel.
This is already a feature in Android as of Marshmallow, which allows you to have the traditional removable SD card format, or essentially set it up on LVM and roll it into your phone's internal volume group. Recommended with fast cards only.
Too bad it only half works. I have apps move themselves back to the phone storage when they update all the time. Or just vanish, needing to be reinstalled and reconfigured.
You are right, and this is a trademark and breach of contract lawsuit. The internet gets these confused all the time when reporting on this stuff, but even the summary says so. Other people in these comments just assume copyright for some reason.
Actually, it's a trademark.
Stay off CDMA networks if you want an unlocked phone. Verizon used their CDMA network as an excuse to block non-Verizon devices for years until the spectrum auction terms forced them to start accepting them on their new bands. The reason I bought the Nexus, and then the unlocked X 2013 and X Pure was specifically because i saw how carriers were fucking up the upgrade cycles on Android.
What idiot buys carrier android phones and expects updates?
Yup, I didn't RTFA. Also, whoever wrote that article called it "profit" in one place and "industry share" somewhere else.
Reading more closely it appears that neither the 75% nor 30% are a share of profit though. They're the companies' the share of industry wide operating income, which has little to do with profit anyway.
Doesn't change the fact that the article states that Apple had 75% of industry profits while Samsung had 30%, which is what the OP pointed out. Also, even if it's their share of overall industry operating income, it's the same problem, 75%+30%=105%
Galaxy Nexus was a bit over 18 months old when J came out, and Google decided to abandon it. Not sure why it coming out before the Moto X would come into play there. Not to mention the GNex was a massive pile of shit of a phone to begin with. So yea, I'm not buying another Nexus because Google can, and has in the past, decided they just can't be bothered with the older devices.
So it's basically like every other popular everything ever? Who would have though.
My Moto X 2013 was upgraded from J all the way to L as opposed to my Galaxy Nexus that was upgraded to.... nothing. 18 months and they abandoned it. My X Pure will get M and (hopefully) on more beyond that, but again, Lenovo. I'm less concerned with how fast vs ever getting them. Google has burned me once with the Nexus line. Done with that.
Yea I learned my lesson with the Galaxy Nexus. Like all their other products Google is happy to drop it when they get bored and move on. Screw that. I've had better luck with Motorola but I don't expect that to be the case going forward either now that Lenovo has fully assimilated them.
Apple accounted for 75 percent of the smartphone industry's profits in the second quarter, but that's down from more than 90 percent a year ago due to Samsung's Galaxy device lineup, according to Canaccord Genuity. Samsung's Galaxy S7 launch and the Note 7 follow-up likely indicate that profits will continue to do well, said Cannaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley in a research note. The other item that may ding Apple's industry profit is that customers are delaying purchases ahead of the iPhone 7 launch. Add it up and Samsung has captured more than 30 percent of industry profits in the second quarter.
I understand the possible conflict of interest in working with ex-CIA, although the fact that they'd admit working for the CIA seems dangerous and sketchy, but I don't understand the Applebaum thing. Are folks against sexual harassment/misconduct, or are they against investigating harassment/misconduct?
Perfectly reasonable question since the summary really doesn't make it clear. Unfortunately you seem to have trigger someone and got modded -1 troll. Welcome to the internet.