The original license for Google Maps on iOS ran out. We don't actually know which of the companies chose to remove Google Maps, nor under what circumstances. In renegotiating, Google may have been pushing for adverts or to collect user data, and Apple may have refused that. No one outside of Apple and Google management knows for sure.
ACID2 is n't the be-all and end-all of browsers. Apple were the first ones that made a smartphone browser bearable with their dragging inertial scroll and double tap and pinch zoom.
Opera's focus was more on re-laying out of pages to make them the same width as a phone screen, and on reducing bandwidth. Nice innovations, but blown out of the water by what Apple did for usability.
The posting limit is there for a reason. It's Sunday: spend some time with the family, go out of the house and do something different. Maybe the quality of your arguments would be improved by some time away and a bit more selectivity.
Using what appears to be WW2 survaliance photos, placing streets in the middle of rivers and lakes and moving towns a great distance away from their actual location (see GP's link) are Beta or even alpha feature
Not to worry, their competitor is Google, and their products are perpetually in beta.
People who had their locker beside yours in high-school are not 'long lost friends'
You're right, they're probably not. But most people do have real friends that they've lost touch with over the years. Back in the days before widespread internet, where phone and the postal service were the only ways to keep in touch with friends that no longer lived locally, it was hard to keep in touch with more than a handful of friends. I'm back in touch with, and now regularly see several friends that I'd lost touch with for years before Friends Reunited and then Facebook came along.
Possibly for those people who's entire adult lives have been lived in the internet age won't understand this.
I couldn't immediately find any second source verifying that he had been banned from google
He says it himself in the video. Of course you could chose to doubt him, but he's also the source of the story that Apple banned him for a year.
From the article I linked to, apple seems to have punished him for making it clear that there were holes in their app store security. Not actually exploiting them.
No. He sent an app to the app store that had a secret feature to download arbitrary code from a server. That is indistinguishable from malware, and does indeed break the ToS.
Presumably he did the similar to Google. You seem to be hoping that he did something worse to Google to justify their rather heavier punishment. Hard to imagine what that could be. You seem to be stuck for hypotheticals as well.
No, as I said, it's amazing how reasonable you have become now we find out Google issued a bigger ban than Apple did. It's a shame your original post was littered with shouting and multiple exclamation marks and sarcasm, and you didn't show your reasonable side from the outset.
Now, just for fun, given that this is the very same security researcher, can you give me an example of what he could have done that would make Google's lifetime ban for him and his wife reasonable. (In the light of a 1 year ban for breaking ToS being unreasonable.)
No, I have never seen anything called paypass or blink. I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I mean it's possible that it's built into some payment terminals, but I haven't ever seen it being offered as an option.
If it's not being marketed so that consumers are aware of it, then its pointless. Maybe it's marketed more where you live than where I do.
Couldn't agree more. I was just correcting the previous posters claim that Apple had copied them from Android, by pointing out Apple had it on their phone first. That doesn't mean I'm not aware others had it on mobiles before.
Nice fact but you know what I mean, NFC is now a expected feature for the top of the range smart phones
Why? I've never seen a place where you can use it. Similar schemes for cards/devices to replace small change etc. have failed to find any traction many times before.
As it stands for those phones that have it, at best it's a pointless novelty.
If Apple introduce it it'll be when and if it gains traction, or if before that, it'll be when Apple themselves can put together enough partners to make it worthwhile.
iPhone video chat (Facetime) was first available Feb 24th 2011.
Android video chat (Google Talk) came out in April 2011.
Both had video chat on PCs much earlier. Apple (iChat AV) in June 2003. Google didn't have it till 5 years later - Nov 11th 2008.
Multitasking the Android way isn't an innovation of theirs at all. Smartphones did that long before Android was even imagined. Multitasking the iOS way is an innovation though.
Quite prepared to give Android the credit for notifications though.
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The original license for Google Maps on iOS ran out. We don't actually know which of the companies chose to remove Google Maps, nor under what circumstances. In renegotiating, Google may have been pushing for adverts or to collect user data, and Apple may have refused that. No one outside of Apple and Google management knows for sure.
ACID2 is n't the be-all and end-all of browsers. Apple were the first ones that made a smartphone browser bearable with their dragging inertial scroll and double tap and pinch zoom.
Opera's focus was more on re-laying out of pages to make them the same width as a phone screen, and on reducing bandwidth. Nice innovations, but blown out of the water by what Apple did for usability.
It's +2 Pro-android and +2 Anti-Apple. That's what the herd mentality here thinks is insightful.
The posting limit is there for a reason. It's Sunday: spend some time with the family, go out of the house and do something different. Maybe the quality of your arguments would be improved by some time away and a bit more selectivity.
It would draw the route between two points on a 2D map with north always up. Useful, but a long way from turn by turn directions.
Using what appears to be WW2 survaliance photos, placing streets in the middle of rivers and lakes and moving towns a great distance away from their actual location (see GP's link) are Beta or even alpha feature
Not to worry, their competitor is Google, and their products are perpetually in beta.
Let me put it this way, if the market decided to blow up the planet, nobody could prevent it, it would just happen.
Strangest argument for market forces I've ever heard.
People who had their locker beside yours in high-school are not 'long lost friends'
You're right, they're probably not. But most people do have real friends that they've lost touch with over the years. Back in the days before widespread internet, where phone and the postal service were the only ways to keep in touch with friends that no longer lived locally, it was hard to keep in touch with more than a handful of friends. I'm back in touch with, and now regularly see several friends that I'd lost touch with for years before Friends Reunited and then Facebook came along.
Possibly for those people who's entire adult lives have been lived in the internet age won't understand this.
Now get off my lawn.
Apple claimed that Samsung violated this patent.
And the court confirmed it.
It's true that the phrase "a rectangle with rounder corners" is a bit inflammatory
Inflammatory, and indeed deceptive.
I couldn't immediately find any second source verifying that he had been banned from google
He says it himself in the video. Of course you could chose to doubt him, but he's also the source of the story that Apple banned him for a year.
From the article I linked to, apple seems to have punished him for making it clear that there were holes in their app store security. Not actually exploiting them.
No. He sent an app to the app store that had a secret feature to download arbitrary code from a server. That is indistinguishable from malware, and does indeed break the ToS.
Presumably he did the similar to Google. You seem to be hoping that he did something worse to Google to justify their rather heavier punishment. Hard to imagine what that could be. You seem to be stuck for hypotheticals as well.
No, as I said, it's amazing how reasonable you have become now we find out Google issued a bigger ban than Apple did. It's a shame your original post was littered with shouting and multiple exclamation marks and sarcasm, and you didn't show your reasonable side from the outset.
Now, just for fun, given that this is the very same security researcher, can you give me an example of what he could have done that would make Google's lifetime ban for him and his wife reasonable. (In the light of a 1 year ban for breaking ToS being unreasonable.)
sucked into their evil vortex.
If your intention was to make it clear to everyone you're a nutjob, you've succeeded.
What's this? Suddenly getting reasonable when the target is Google rather than Apple?
So don't lump me into the "Android fan" group you seem to have a problem with.
If you repeat their distortions I will. The iPhone design patent is more than "a rectangle with rounded corners".
I have a problem with patents that are too vague being granted, then used to stifle competition.
No, your problem is believing that patents are vaguer than they actually are.
No, it's because he's clueless. There are numerous PayPass terminals throughout the US.
Both of you are wrong and presumptuous. I live in the UK.
From Germany's point of view, Poland fired the first shot in 1939.
Your comment is entirely unrelated to any actual historical fact.
The nature of the law suit was never simply "a rectangle with rounded corners", except in the imagination of Android fans.
No, never. I live in the UK.
Violence is an illegal action. Issuing a law suite is a response to an illegal action.
And my earlier point is that I've never seen such a terminal out in the wild. It probably depends where one lives.
No, I have never seen anything called paypass or blink. I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I mean it's possible that it's built into some payment terminals, but I haven't ever seen it being offered as an option.
If it's not being marketed so that consumers are aware of it, then its pointless. Maybe it's marketed more where you live than where I do.
Couldn't agree more. I was just correcting the previous posters claim that Apple had copied them from Android, by pointing out Apple had it on their phone first. That doesn't mean I'm not aware others had it on mobiles before.
Nice fact but you know what I mean, NFC is now a expected feature for the top of the range smart phones
Why? I've never seen a place where you can use it. Similar schemes for cards/devices to replace small change etc. have failed to find any traction many times before.
As it stands for those phones that have it, at best it's a pointless novelty.
If Apple introduce it it'll be when and if it gains traction, or if before that, it'll be when Apple themselves can put together enough partners to make it worthwhile.
You've got some of your history wrong.
iPhone video chat (Facetime) was first available Feb 24th 2011.
Android video chat (Google Talk) came out in April 2011.
Both had video chat on PCs much earlier. Apple (iChat AV) in June 2003. Google didn't have it till 5 years later - Nov 11th 2008.
Multitasking the Android way isn't an innovation of theirs at all. Smartphones did that long before Android was even imagined. Multitasking the iOS way is an innovation though.
Quite prepared to give Android the credit for notifications though.
Yay! Obese, contact lens wearing owners of Android unite!