You assume that Android branding is important. If Google adds onerous restrictions then these manufacturers can sell essentially the same phone unbranded, form their own brand, or partner with say Amazon.
You are right. dell just killed off their Android Streak in the USA market and I read this week the are going to partner with the Chinese and an alternative OS Y1.
There will be no Google anything in the new Dell Streak smartphone. How is that for Michael stabbing his buddies in the back?
This is very bad news for Google as that is going to be a kick ass phone from Dell.
Actually both the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab are in line for ICS. It would have been more convincing if you are not got the story from an Apple fanboi website.
Last I heard that is the furthest thing from an Apple fan site, right?
There are almost as many real android users weighing in about this development as you would find on/.
They feel betrayed and they are angry! Ten million Android users just got screwed after buying high end Android Galaxy devices from Samsung. See their comments on VERGE.
Add that to the disgruntled Android users from HTC and you begin to see a disturbing pattern that bodes danger for Android's future in the US market unless this new stuff is so cheap most people would not care, but get over $300 for any Android and there may be problems compared to the marketing challenges coming from Apple in February.
Too many things are beginning to go wrong with Android at an astonishing pace and that needs to be fixed ASAP. CES better recharge the nation's desire for Android or 2012 will be a runaway year of the Apple.
It still competes directly with Android devices. While real Android Devices are of much better quality than the Kindle Fire, and have higher levels of software support and better quality hardware, they are still tarnished by the Kindle Fires existence.
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Meanwhile in business world, Amazon will continue making money hand-over-fist buy selling stuff, Apple will continue making money hand-over-fist buy selling stuff and Google and Facebook will still be making hand-over-fist by selling your data.
Three disturbing points in the last 48 hours.
Samsung will leave 10,000,000 Samsung Android owners abandoned by refusing to provide them with ICS. This has the potential of making up to ten million people very unhappy with android. If they tell merely five others how they feel being screwed than that means fifty million people will be exposed to negative android publicity by a trusted friend.
Dell is after killing of their Dell Streak android tablets in the US a week or two ago is switching to a fork of Android from the Chinese for their new Dell Streak smartphone which will rival any flagship Android sold in the US for high end quality. This new fragmentation may chill Google on Android when they see their hold on the smartphone and tablet market slipping away by the treacherous actions. . http://androidcommunity.com/dell-partners-with-chinese-search-engine-baidu-for-streak-pro-20111223/
The last is the move by both B&N and Amazon to lockout access to root with a new update to their 'Android' firmware. This is a real kick in the teeth from former friends to Android and open source.
Now run that by me again how 2012 is going to become the year of Google Android.
I have been to manufacturing centres (we used to call them factories) and I can promise you we do not want them back nor the jobs.
When ever I hear someone talking about the loss of manufacturing jobs, especially no-skill or low-skill jobs, I ask them if they hope their own children will one day work in such a job. They always say no.
Working in a no-skill / low-skill job in a factory is awful. We should not want any part of our labour market filling jobs like those.
Isn't Texas close to a large supply of cheap labor that can come from, wait for it, wait for it,.... Mexico?
One important difference is that in the credit card industry there are published rules that you must comply with called the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard However, it is worth noting that even if they ignore all of the best practices, they are probably technically in the clear right now. Mobile Applications are currently exempted from PCI and PA enforcement pending an update to the rules. As they are currently written, they acknowledge that they were not designed with mobile devices in mind. Mobile payment application developers are encouraged to follow the general guidelines of PCI, but they are somewhat left to their best judgement.
The bottom line is found found on the Consumerist Web site. A consumer is unwise to use a cellular mobile payment system as there are few legal safeguards compared to using a real credit card swipe or cash. My family will pass until the law catches up with were Google and some cellular manufactures are trying to go and holds them accountable. There is too much at risk for us in a world of foreign criminal syndicates itching to take advantage of these new opportunities that Google presents.
As long as making a hit app is harder than porting from one to the other, developers will port every hit from their favorite to the other before searching for another hit. Because nobody in his right mind is going to turn down hundreds of millions more customers. So the hit apps will be present on both.
I would like to agree with you but one of the most popular apps for the iPad is called GoodReader. It has well over 32,000 reviews and a strong almost perfect five stars from all those users. I find it a very well done universal file manager for the iPad and basically the best PDF Reader you can get for iOS. Every month they have another update that adds even more features and another ton of new users.
When you inquire how soon it will be before they port this blockbuster to Android the developer says never! GoodReader uses too many outstanding native features built into iOS to make their app function smoothly that it would be major pain to try to write it for Android.
Do a search for "Why No GoodReader Android" and you will find the developers page which explains why they never will do an Android version. There are a lot of angry Android users when they find out they can not have it or something just as good.
I support both iOS and Android users and while looking at another popular specialized Reader app I was astonished that even thought the Android version costs twice as much at $20 compared to $9.95 in the Apple version in the app store, the Android version has remarkably fewer features and far less support for all kinds of documents.
IMHO it is not worth any where near they price they soak an Android user for with those key features missing, but thousands of them buy it each week for Android, many do not even realize they have been taken.
The reason extra features are there on the iPad is that all the heavy lifting is built in iOS by Apple. Once you understand how it works, the iPhone and the iPad are just simpler to deal with in creating high quality apps. IMHO that is why most developers are attracted to working with iOS as the target platform for their latest creation.
Off course it is also nice that they get 300% greater return for their efforts by using the Apple app store. If you have a narrow audience that will seek you out where ever you are, you have it made.
Android by its very design can easily be a choice target of cyber criminals. This eventually will kill adoption of Android as more stories circulate of those suffering from using Android
Like MS windows security vulnerabilities killed windows adoption in the 1990s? And Windows became a tiny minority of installed and running operating systems on internet connected devices by the turn of the century?
You missed the point. Security back then was not as complex an issue as it is now. Cyber Crime is real and there is a big business in raping connected users. When fear mushrooms as reports leak in the media, isn't it only a matter of time before any mobile platform will die from the negative publicity?
Meh, most of the big name android devices cost the same as the newest iphone, with service plans that cost the same. I see us heading to a bazaar situation in mobile some day. A real one. And then apple is going to get kicked out on their ass again, just like they did in the PC market when commoditized home computers yanked the market out from under them.
Could you and most other slash doters be missing a new factor? Cyber criminals have advanced from bad to worse since the old PC era.
Apple clearly recognizes this as a threat to the mobile platform and has set polices in place to deal with the threat. Apple now has appeal as a safe place for their customers.
Apple is even taking steps to make software unable to spread malware in their Mac OS X with the push to sandbox most apps.
Android by its very design can easily be a choice target of cyber criminals. This eventually will kill adoption of Android as more stories circulate of those suffering from using Android. There was warning that ran in the Atlanta Journal Constitution this very weekend.
AJC which can't get most stories straight described a problem that we all know is unique to Android and yet the AJC implied it was a Smartphone problem that included iPhones too.
When the mass media reports more of these and gets the story straight few will be comfortable owning an Android anything unless Google makes massive changes locking down Android that will be very unpopular with slashdoters.
And all of this is without even getting into issues of build quality, fit and finish, maintenance, ability to resell later, value of the OS, etc..
Look at the 'fit and finish' of Apple laptops. Apple freely welcomes the user to upgrade the memory about $40 for 8 GB of high speed high quality ram and the HD was $100 for 750 GB at 7200 RPM. Doing it yourself doesn't void the Apple warranty either.
They have easy step by step instructions for all their Macs on the Apple website. The only catch is you need a couple of jewelers tools! These Apples are not the crap finish and workmanship of common PC laptops. These use tiny screws and fittings along the lines of what you would normally find in a smartphone. The workmanship and attention to detail is amazing.
But that is the hidden value when you buy Apple products.
Android is "free enough" for me. The API is open for programmers to use, and you can install what software you want. Most people don't care whether it's open source or not - just look at all the most popular OSes and devices out there. I'd prefer that they were still releasing the source, but as long as it works well and they don't try to force an Apple style walled garden, I don't mind.
I bet you didn't know Apple's OS X 10.7, Lion is OPEN SOURCE.
Just goto apple dot com open source to download the code
“Samsung Electronics Co. is preparing to expand its tablet-computer lineup by using a new version of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows software as the South Korean company’s products built around Google Inc.’s Android operating system come under legal attack from Apple Inc.,” Evan Ramstad reports for The Wall Street Journal.
This will be announced next Tuesday at Windows 8 meeting.
“‘Samsung at least has to have a double bet rather than relying 100% on Android,’ said Chang Sea-jin, a business professor at National University of Singapore and author of a book on Samsung.
Google did this to themselves.
But the absolute best idea floated today is for Apple to announce they were signing up to be an Android partner. They would never have to actually produce anything but they would have the same patent rights owned by Google the other partners had planed to use against them. Apple like Samsung would then still be able to freely sue Android manufacturers with out fear.
pcMag and just about any other decent web site this week now have step by step how to create new malware for Android intstructions so simple that an absolute moron can create new custom malware for Android. That simple step by step knowledge should have never been posted to the web!
Google needs to act fast and tighten up the free and open part of Android or no one will want to buy Android as the word gets out any idiot can tamper with the apps you may download, even from the Market. . Creating malware for anything but Android requires a fair amount of programing skills but you can be wiped out on drugs or drunk and knock out Android malware now, no skill required.
Malware scanners need to be immediately made a mandatory part of the default basic Android OS.
Then you can get down to worrying if you really have crap Android hardware.
IT managers may want to be careful in antagonizing those who want Macs in Corporate. Their jobs are no longer secure and may soon end anyway if Google has it's way with Chrome and leased hardware.
Yes that is right, Google, Slashdot's favorite is quietly orchestrating a mind boggling change in how business and schools will buy and use computers. The cost savings are related to the total lack of need for IT.
When Chrome takes over the Enterprise there will be absolutely no need for a massive corporate IT staff anywhere. Those whose careers in IT will be like Kodak, Newspapers, Blockbuster, and the eight track vendors who were suddenly overwhelmed by digital change that removed their relevance in society.
Not to forget all the new Mac Book Pros 2011 are equipped with face time out of the box. These are remarkably well made laptops that should again blow away Apples competition in the quality laptop market. I bought one yesterday and I am amazed at how much Apple gives you in a laptop designed to last more than a year or two. the whole Apple mobile ecosystem from iPhones, iPads, to laptops now are face time capable. I wonder if Android will be able to use Face Time or will it be merely limited to Google talk?
It's not their fault US mobile providers bend you over and charge you loads on top of a monthly fee and actually yes HTC, Nokia, Apple and Microsoft want you buying a phone every 2 years.
Some of those phone vendors seem to expect you to buy the latest and greatest every three months!
The oversight is in not culling the file, including it in the backup, and not deleting it when Location Services is turned off. All of which will be fixed in an upcoming iOS update.
The only oversight on Apple's part would be in not hiding the fact that they are tracking users well enough.
Apple isn't tracking their users. The information is anonymous. No one is tracking each iPhone user personally, just the group in aggregate. Also, it's funny you say their oversight is "not hiding" this very well, when your previous sentence is based on a public statement by Apple that they are collecting this information. Let alone the fact that this is also stated in the iPhone EULA.
Android does this too. One main difference is Google ties a lot of information to your Google ID. I'd trust Apple to be less of a privacy invader than Google.
If I was HSA or the FBI the data Google collects on each person is what I would want since google can pretty much tell where any particular Android user is in realtime. Since Google collects so much data across all it's products with the user Google ID it is extremely valuable to commercial interests who want your money and to any government who wants your loyalty or else your life.
What's wrong with a cheap Android from the east, save the taxpayer some money.
Can Android can be locked down in an educational setting? Everything that was wrong with the PC in education is present in Android in SPADES.
BTW, no one has the complete tablet educational package as cheap as Apple does. Why would any parent advocate giving the kids a dinky half size screen to save a few dollars when they themselves would not want to live with one.
Ninety percent of Slashdot complains that iOS is a locked down walled garden they can not freely change and yet this is what Apple is offering as an educational tool that is locked down to what the student actually needs There is no room for superfluous time wasting apps that can be easily added by the student as on all the other open platforms.
When you think it through, an iPad for K12 is brilliant!
The schools could gotten laptops for less with a bigger screen, more ram , more hdd space and more software.
No one wants a hdd in a compact portable device anymore. SSDs are far superior and Apple leads the way. The HHD industry is collapsing as more and more discover the advantages of instant on cool Solid State Devices that can not be harmed with a simple drop. Did you hear that? A class with out noisy battery eatting fans!
Teaching aids and various paraprofessionals are a good use of money. But there are few ways that are more direct in effect than paying for a full time librarian and a librarian's assistant.
Librairians are a waste of money with the advent of the handy light weight iPad. Most of our weatlhy county's libraries will be closed and sold off as redundant in this day and age of Kindles and iPads. As a concerned taxpayer I welcome this change that will save us money.
Apple is doing so much better than its competition, this article is delusional. Apple has always maintained the look and feel of their products as something unique to them. They created it, why should other companies be allowed to copy them? They can come up with their own unique designs. This lawsuit fits perfectly with this idea. No need to project some sort of desperation scenario.
Also, the article is factually incorrect when it states Android is surging past iOS in market share (iOS maintains a significant lead over Android, and always has, although on Slashdot ignorance is bliss, so I fully expect some replies from people ignorantly claiming this isn't true), and Apple's market share is increasing, and their revenues are increasing, and their profits are increasing. They are the most financially successful cell phone maker on the planet. They do not fear Google's business model. Why would they when their own is working so well? Not just working well, but working significantly better than that of anyone else?
This article is just the same old uninformed nonsense you expect from people who don't understand that the reason people make money is to buy things. Just because something is free (or "less than free") does not mean people will want it, nor does it mean that people won't pay more for something else. Store shelves wouldn't contain name brands if people always chose the cheapest option.
iOS far outsells Android, yet clearly Apple's business model is doomed? Brilliant!
Proof you are correct can be seen with bottled water for drinking. Almost anyone in the USA can easily avail themselves of free tap water to drink, this is comparable to Android which is more or less widely available at no obvious cost. Yet there is a huge market for bottled water. I may buy fifty to a hundred cases at a clip, but then I appreciate the quality and convience of Zepherhills Spring Water (charateristics of Apple products) compared to common urban tap water.
I use tap water to flush the toilet but I would never use Zepherhills Spring Water for such a common task. Both surces of water have their place in life, the free one easily dumped into the sewer and the beter quality costly one which is safer and better tasting which I carry everywhere.
Yup - They're fucked. I haven't had a "real" TV in a couple of years. I do have Netflix (mainly to get DVDs), but mostly I just "find" what I want to watch online and watch when I want and commercial free. Then again, I don't watch TV very often other than The Daily Show and Colbert.
Both of which are on the iPad.
I just spent three weeks using only an iPad 3G without touching a computer, this being posted from the iPad too. This really forces you to learn how to best use it and to seek out the best apps similar to using programs on a computer.
My wife wants me to put it down so she can stream Netflix in the kitchen! This iPad is being used almost 24/7! The iPad has proven to have been a terrifically big bang for our tech dollar.
Name some. I have both phones now and Romeozulu seems so much more correct.
It is worse if you have the iPad and an Android tablet with Honeycomb. I have access to 65,000 true tablet apps on the iPad including some great games and exactly seventeen true Android tablet apps.
I feel royally screwed by Google at this point!
No one who has a iPad size tablet wants to use dinky Android telephone aps only expanded to fit a large screen! We want true tablet apps built for a tablet.
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You assume that Android branding is important. If Google adds onerous restrictions then these manufacturers can sell essentially the same phone unbranded, form their own brand, or partner with say Amazon.
You are right. dell just killed off their Android Streak in the USA market and I read this week the are going to partner with the Chinese and an alternative OS Y1.
There will be no Google anything in the new Dell Streak smartphone. How is that for Michael stabbing his buddies in the back?
This is very bad news for Google as that is going to be a kick ass phone from Dell.
Actually both the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab are in line for ICS. It would have been more convincing if you are not got the story from an Apple fanboi website.
You better be glad I am not moderator today.
Don't you even keep up with the Verge?
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/23/2657132/samsung-no-ics-upgrade-for-galaxy-s-and-galaxy-tab
Last I heard that is the furthest thing from an Apple fan site, right?
There are almost as many real android users weighing in about this development as you would find on /.
They feel betrayed and they are angry! Ten million Android users just got screwed after buying high end Android Galaxy devices from Samsung.
See their comments on VERGE.
Add that to the disgruntled Android users from HTC and you begin to see a disturbing pattern that bodes danger for Android's future in the US market unless this new stuff is so cheap most people would not care, but get over $300 for any Android and there may be problems compared to the marketing challenges coming from Apple in February.
Too many things are beginning to go wrong with Android at an astonishing pace and that needs to be fixed ASAP.
CES better recharge the nation's desire for Android or 2012 will be a runaway year of the Apple.
It still competes directly with Android devices.
While real Android Devices are of much better quality than the Kindle Fire, and have higher levels of software support and better quality hardware, they are still tarnished by the Kindle Fires existence.
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Meanwhile in business world, Amazon will continue making money hand-over-fist buy selling stuff, Apple will continue making money hand-over-fist buy selling stuff and Google and Facebook will still be making hand-over-fist by selling your data.
Three disturbing points in the last 48 hours.
Samsung will leave 10,000,000 Samsung Android owners abandoned by refusing to provide them with ICS. This has the potential of making up to ten million people very unhappy with android. If they tell merely five others how they feel being screwed than that means fifty million people will be exposed to negative android publicity by a trusted friend.
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/23/2657132/samsung-no-ics-upgrade-for-galaxy-s-and-galaxy-tab
Dell is after killing of their Dell Streak android tablets in the US a week or two ago is switching to a fork of Android from the Chinese for their new Dell Streak smartphone which will rival any flagship Android sold in the US for high end quality. This new fragmentation may chill Google on Android when they see their hold on the smartphone and tablet market slipping away by the treacherous actions.
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http://androidcommunity.com/dell-partners-with-chinese-search-engine-baidu-for-streak-pro-20111223/
The last is the move by both B&N and Amazon to lockout access to root with a new update to their 'Android' firmware. This is a real kick in the teeth from former friends to Android and open source.
Now run that by me again how 2012 is going to become the year of Google Android.
I have been to manufacturing centres (we used to call them factories) and I can promise you we do not want them back nor the jobs.
When ever I hear someone talking about the loss of manufacturing jobs, especially no-skill or low-skill jobs, I ask them if they hope their own children will one day work in such a job. They always say no.
Working in a no-skill / low-skill job in a factory is awful. We should not want any part of our labour market filling jobs like those.
Isn't Texas close to a large supply of cheap labor that can come from, wait for it, wait for it,.... Mexico?
One important difference is that in the credit card industry there are published rules that you must comply with called the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
However, it is worth noting that even if they ignore all of the best practices, they are probably technically in the clear right now. Mobile Applications are currently exempted from PCI and PA enforcement pending an update to the rules. As they are currently written, they acknowledge that they were not designed with mobile devices in mind. Mobile payment application developers are encouraged to follow the general guidelines of PCI, but they are somewhat left to their best judgement.
The bottom line is found found on the Consumerist Web site. A consumer is unwise to use a cellular mobile payment system as there are few legal safeguards compared to using a real credit card swipe or cash. My family will pass until the law catches up with were Google and some cellular manufactures are trying to go and holds them accountable. There is too much at risk for us in a world of foreign criminal syndicates itching to take advantage of these new opportunities that Google presents.
As long as making a hit app is harder than porting from one to the other, developers will port every hit from their favorite to the other before searching for another hit. Because nobody in his right mind is going to turn down hundreds of millions more customers. So the hit apps will be present on both.
I would like to agree with you but one of the most popular apps for the iPad is called GoodReader.
It has well over 32,000 reviews and a strong almost perfect five stars from all those users. I find it a very well done universal file manager for the iPad and basically the best PDF Reader you can get for iOS. Every month they have another update that adds even more features and another ton of new users.
When you inquire how soon it will be before they port this blockbuster to Android the developer says never! GoodReader uses too many outstanding native features built into iOS to make their app function smoothly that it would be major pain to try to write it for Android.
Do a search for "Why No GoodReader Android" and you will find the developers page which explains why they never will do an Android version. There are a lot of angry Android users when they find out they can not have it or something just as good.
I support both iOS and Android users and while looking at another popular specialized Reader app I was astonished that even thought the Android version costs twice as much at $20 compared to $9.95 in the Apple version in the app store, the Android version has remarkably fewer features and far less support for all kinds of documents.
IMHO it is not worth any where near they price they soak an Android user for with those key features missing, but thousands of them buy it each week for Android, many do not even realize they have been taken.
The reason extra features are there on the iPad is that all the heavy lifting is built in iOS by Apple.
Once you understand how it works, the iPhone and the iPad are just simpler to deal with in creating high quality apps. IMHO that is why most developers are attracted to working with iOS as the target platform for their latest creation.
Off course it is also nice that they get 300% greater return for their efforts by using the Apple app store. If you have a narrow audience that will seek you out where ever you are, you have it made.
I agree, you should certainly not try to buy any of these. Err, you should also tell all of your friends not to as well. .>
Hello, I am going to tell everyone whom I don't particularly like about the HP deal.
Every political insider who calls me for my vote or a political donation will hear about this bargain for their staff this weekend.
Android by its very design can easily be a choice target of cyber criminals. This eventually will kill adoption of Android as more stories circulate of those suffering from using Android
Like MS windows security vulnerabilities killed windows adoption in the 1990s? And Windows became a tiny minority of installed and running operating systems on internet connected devices by the turn of the century?
You missed the point. Security back then was not as complex an issue as it is now. Cyber Crime is real and there is a big business in raping connected users.
When fear mushrooms as reports leak in the media, isn't it only a matter of time before any mobile platform will die from the negative publicity?
Meh, most of the big name android devices cost the same as the newest iphone, with service plans that cost the same.
I see us heading to a bazaar situation in mobile some day. A real one. And then apple is going to get kicked out on their ass again, just like they did in the PC market when commoditized home computers yanked the market out from under them.
Could you and most other slash doters be missing a new factor?
Cyber criminals have advanced from bad to worse since the old PC era.
Apple clearly recognizes this as a threat to the mobile platform and has set polices in place to deal with the threat. Apple now has appeal as a safe place for their customers.
Apple is even taking steps to make software unable to spread malware in their Mac OS X with the push to sandbox most apps.
Android by its very design can easily be a choice target of cyber criminals. This eventually will kill adoption of Android as more stories circulate of those suffering from using Android. There was warning that ran in the Atlanta Journal Constitution this very weekend.
AJC which can't get most stories straight described a problem that we all know is unique to Android and yet the AJC implied it was a Smartphone problem that included iPhones too.
When the mass media reports more of these and gets the story straight few will be comfortable owning an Android anything unless Google makes massive changes locking down Android that will be very unpopular with slashdoters.
And all of this is without even getting into issues of build quality, fit and finish, maintenance, ability to resell later, value of the OS, etc..
Look at the 'fit and finish' of Apple laptops. Apple freely welcomes the user to upgrade the memory about $40 for 8 GB of high speed high quality ram and the HD was $100 for 750 GB at 7200 RPM. Doing it yourself doesn't void the Apple warranty either.
They have easy step by step instructions for all their Macs on the Apple website. The only catch is you need a couple of jewelers tools! These Apples are not the crap finish and workmanship of common PC laptops. These use tiny screws and fittings along the lines of what you would normally find in a smartphone. The workmanship and attention to detail is amazing.
But that is the hidden value when you buy Apple products.
Android is "free enough" for me. The API is open for programmers to use, and you can install what software you want. Most people don't care whether it's open source or not - just look at all the most popular OSes and devices out there. I'd prefer that they were still releasing the source, but as long as it works well and they don't try to force an Apple style walled garden, I don't mind.
I bet you didn't know Apple's OS X 10.7, Lion is OPEN SOURCE.
Just goto apple dot com open source to download the code
Enjoy what few know about.
“Samsung Electronics Co. is preparing to expand its tablet-computer lineup by using a new version of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows software as the South Korean company’s products built around Google Inc.’s Android operating system come under legal attack from Apple Inc.,” Evan Ramstad reports for The Wall Street Journal.
This will be announced next Tuesday at Windows 8 meeting.
“‘Samsung at least has to have a double bet rather than relying 100% on Android,’ said Chang Sea-jin, a business professor at National University of Singapore and author of a book on Samsung.
Google did this to themselves.
But the absolute best idea floated today is for Apple to announce they were signing up to be an Android partner.
They would never have to actually produce anything but they would have the same patent rights owned by Google the other partners had planed to use against them. Apple like Samsung would then still be able to freely sue Android manufacturers with out fear.
BRILLIANT!
pcMag and just about any other decent web site this week now have step by step how to create new malware for Android intstructions so simple that an absolute moron can create new custom malware for Android. That simple step by step knowledge should have never been posted to the web!
Google needs to act fast and tighten up the free and open part of Android or no one will want to buy Android as the word gets out any idiot can tamper with the apps you may download, even from the Market. . Creating malware for anything but Android requires a fair amount of programing skills but you can be wiped out on drugs or drunk and knock out Android malware now, no skill required.
Malware scanners need to be immediately made a mandatory part of the default basic Android OS.
Then you can get down to worrying if you really have crap Android hardware.
IT managers may want to be careful in antagonizing those who want Macs in Corporate. Their jobs are no longer secure and may soon end anyway if Google has it's way with Chrome and leased hardware.
Yes that is right, Google, Slashdot's favorite is quietly orchestrating a mind boggling change in how business and schools will buy and use computers. The cost savings are related to the total lack of need for IT.
When Chrome takes over the Enterprise there will be absolutely no need for a massive corporate IT staff anywhere. Those whose careers in IT will be like Kodak, Newspapers, Blockbuster, and the eight track vendors who were suddenly overwhelmed by digital change that removed their relevance in society.
Not to forget all the new Mac Book Pros 2011 are equipped with face time out of the box. These are remarkably well made laptops that should again blow away Apples competition in the quality laptop market. I bought one yesterday and I am amazed at how much Apple gives you in a laptop designed to last more than a year or two. the whole Apple mobile ecosystem from iPhones, iPads, to laptops now are face time capable. I wonder if Android will be able to use Face Time or will it be merely limited to Google talk?
Anyone?
It's not their fault US mobile providers bend you over and charge you loads on top of a monthly fee and actually yes HTC, Nokia, Apple and Microsoft want you buying a phone every 2 years.
Some of those phone vendors seem to expect you to buy the latest and greatest every three months!
The oversight is in not culling the file, including it in the backup, and not deleting it when Location Services is turned off. All of which will be fixed in an upcoming iOS update.
The only oversight on Apple's part would be in not hiding the fact that they are tracking users well enough.
Apple isn't tracking their users. The information is anonymous. No one is tracking each iPhone user personally, just the group in aggregate. Also, it's funny you say their oversight is "not hiding" this very well, when your previous sentence is based on a public statement by Apple that they are collecting this information. Let alone the fact that this is also stated in the iPhone EULA.
Android does this too. One main difference is Google ties a lot of information to your Google ID. I'd trust Apple to be less of a privacy invader than Google.
If I was HSA or the FBI the data Google collects on each person is what I would want since google can pretty much tell where any particular Android user is in realtime. Since Google collects so much data across all it's products with the user Google ID it is extremely valuable to commercial interests who want your money and to any government who wants your loyalty or else your life.
What's wrong with a cheap Android from the east, save the taxpayer some money.
Can Android can be locked down in an educational setting? Everything that was wrong with the PC in education is present in Android in SPADES.
BTW, no one has the complete tablet educational package as cheap as Apple does. Why would any parent advocate giving the kids a dinky half size screen to save a few dollars when they themselves would not want to live with one.
Ninety percent of Slashdot complains that iOS is a locked down walled garden they can not freely change and yet this is what Apple is offering as an educational tool that is locked down to what the student actually needs There is no room for superfluous time wasting apps that can be easily added by the student as on all the other open platforms.
When you think it through, an iPad for K12 is brilliant!
The schools could gotten laptops for less with a bigger screen, more ram , more hdd space and more software.
No one wants a hdd in a compact portable device anymore. SSDs are far superior and Apple leads the way. The HHD industry is collapsing as more and more discover the advantages of instant on cool Solid State Devices that can not be harmed with a simple drop. Did you hear that? A class with out noisy battery eatting fans!
Teaching aids and various paraprofessionals are a good use of money. But there are few ways that are more direct in effect than paying for a full time librarian and a librarian's assistant.
Librairians are a waste of money with the advent of the handy light weight iPad. Most of our weatlhy county's libraries will be closed and sold off as redundant in this day and age of Kindles and iPads. As a concerned taxpayer I welcome this change that will save us money.
toys?
There is a compact adapter, probes, etc. along with an iPad app that turns the iPad into a nifty digital storage oscilloscope.
Apple is doing so much better than its competition, this article is delusional. Apple has always maintained the look and feel of their products as something unique to them. They created it, why should other companies be allowed to copy them? They can come up with their own unique designs. This lawsuit fits perfectly with this idea. No need to project some sort of desperation scenario.
Also, the article is factually incorrect when it states Android is surging past iOS in market share (iOS maintains a significant lead over Android, and always has, although on Slashdot ignorance is bliss, so I fully expect some replies from people ignorantly claiming this isn't true), and Apple's market share is increasing, and their revenues are increasing, and their profits are increasing. They are the most financially successful cell phone maker on the planet. They do not fear Google's business model. Why would they when their own is working so well? Not just working well, but working significantly better than that of anyone else?
This article is just the same old uninformed nonsense you expect from people who don't understand that the reason people make money is to buy things. Just because something is free (or "less than free") does not mean people will want it, nor does it mean that people won't pay more for something else. Store shelves wouldn't contain name brands if people always chose the cheapest option.
iOS far outsells Android, yet clearly Apple's business model is doomed? Brilliant!
Proof you are correct can be seen with bottled water for drinking. Almost anyone in the USA can easily avail themselves of free tap water to drink, this is comparable to Android which is more or less widely available at no obvious cost. Yet there is a huge market for bottled water. I may buy fifty to a hundred cases at a clip, but then I appreciate the quality and convience of Zepherhills Spring Water (charateristics of Apple products) compared to common urban tap water.
I use tap water to flush the toilet but I would never use Zepherhills Spring Water for such a common task.
Both surces of water have their place in life, the free one easily dumped into the sewer and the beter quality costly one which is safer and better tasting which I carry everywhere.
Yup - They're fucked. I haven't had a "real" TV in a couple of years. I do have Netflix (mainly to get DVDs), but mostly I just "find" what I want to watch online and watch when I want and commercial free. Then again, I don't watch TV very often other than The Daily Show and Colbert.
Both of which are on the iPad.
I just spent three weeks using only an iPad 3G without touching a computer, this being posted from the iPad too.
This really forces you to learn how to best use it and to seek out the best apps similar to using programs on a computer.
My wife wants me to put it down so she can stream Netflix in the kitchen! This iPad is being used almost 24/7!
The iPad has proven to have been a terrifically big bang for our tech dollar.
Name some. I have both phones now and Romeozulu seems so much more correct.
It is worse if you have the iPad and an Android tablet with Honeycomb. I have access to 65,000 true tablet apps on the iPad including some great games and exactly seventeen true Android tablet apps.
I feel royally screwed by Google at this point!
No one who has a iPad size tablet wants to use dinky Android telephone aps only expanded to fit a large screen!
We want true tablet apps built for a tablet.