It's phone makers AND carriers. The only real reason carriers are loving Android is it's the Anti-iPhone. Think about it - the iPhone denies carriers to ability to customize the experience, load up custom helpful apps, and all that stuff. Apple's basically dictated the terms - Apple does the software, you guys sell service (and pay Apple a portion of the profits). The only reason carriers are doing this is because people want the iPhone and they'll line up in droves to get one. What they lose in the iPhone deals, they make up because there are just so freaking many iPhone users (see how the iPhone has been kind ot AT&T's revenue).
I just saw in the news that Verizon's Android customers are getting an update that will be pushed on them over the Verizon network starting next week. It will add V-Cast and the V Cast store so you can add Verizon approved apps to your Android. This is the same crap I had years ago from Verizon on my LG phone.
So Verizon may not have fixed the browser problem but the Android user has a pretty red Verizon V-Cast interface to work with.
Why would it? In most cases they almost seem to be of the attitude that "You bought it, now it's your problem".
It is sad to see this is the norm for the Android World. If a person isn't a Geek who can tinker with the OS without creating a brick, I recommend normal people buy Apple.
Apple has far more to loose if a problem needs to be corrected or new features need to added. Apple is already rolling out a major firmware update to iOS4 on Sunday November 7, 2010 which fixes an alarm error on all mobile OS devices and adds one hundred new features to the iPad. The iPad has been out only seven months and look what Apple is giving those who bought the very first ones during that period.
Motorola, HTC and all the rest could take a page from Apple and take better care of their customers. Right now about 2/3 of all existing Android customers are screwed because of this researcher's ill advised move and the indifference of many hardware manufacturers who have used Android.
I use both on my AO751h (+ABP), and a 9 cell battery gets me ~10 hours of use, streaming video or whatever. And no damned "Punch the Monkey" ads. Don't see why the same wouldn't work on/for Macs...
I can hook up a heavy Marine Battery to any laptop and stream video using Flash longer than any light Mac Book Air can stream video.
This is a good move by Google even if it will resemble Apple's 'app store governance' to some degree. Google needs to protect their customers/product (one and the same).
There is no Android protection. If you want the Secret SMS Replicator developed by DLP Mobile then just buy it else where. All you have to do is a google on Bing! and find the Secret SMS Replicator for sale. Buy it then carefully plan to use it to get the goods on you know who!
I don't care if Android will be a better deal some day. I do not want to share in the pain of having a less than optimal Internet connected phone right now, so I choose to only buy and recommend Apple's iPhone and the iPad. If some time in the future I see there is a better experience with something else I will buy that at that time.
Apple has been a remarkably pleasant experience compared to all the purchases I have made since 1960.
I recall universities (stupidly, imo -- just buy a few paper (or Braille, or whatever) textbooks for the tiny minority of students for whom Kindles are unacceptable) dropping e-textbook plans because of ADA concerns. I don't recall anyone saying that using the iPad instead would have alleviated these concerns.
Nothing in that link suggests that the government considers the iPad any better or that the Kindle would need any specific features found in the iPad to comply. I vaguely remember that Amazon was working on adding text-to-speech to the Kindle a while back to silence complaints about accessibility.
---linuxrocks123
That first link was from a Kindle fanboy site. Duh?
Please, it is not difficult to find the rest of the story for this was big news in July/August 2010. I remember reading about it all over the place in iPad discussions. There may have already been references here on/. too.
If I have to go and find the rest of it for you that is going to have to be a whole case of Sam Adams beer you must promise to email me
You're going to need a cite on this federal law or I call BS. Googling "iPad Kindle ADA" turned up zilch.
---linuxrocks123
I might add that Obama's "U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today [Oct 12, 2010] announced the award of $10.9 million for 28 grants under two new federal programs that create opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities to attend and be successful in higher education."
You might consider that the iPad grant after a little more research. That answers other points made on/. as to how are they going to pay for this.
What makes the iPad a leader in this field for ADA compliance?
Here’s a summary of Voiceover gestures using accessibility for the IPAD that are not found in most other similar devices like Android.
You can also download IPAD iSO4 user guide for the IPAD. The download is free; however, the user guide is 303 pages. Here is a short snip on the just the subject of user gestures. It may be helpful for you to see why it complies with ADA in the eyes of the US government!
Navigate and Read
--> Tap: Speak item.
--> Flick right or left: Select the next or previous item.
--> Flick up or down: The effect varies depending on the Rotor Control setting. See “Using VoiceOver” on page 110.
--> Two-finger tap: Stop speaking the current item.
--> Two-finger flick up: Read all, from the top of the screen.
--> Two-finger flick down: Read all, from the current position.
--> Three-finger flick up or down: Scroll one page at a time.
--> Three-finger flick right or left: Go to the next or previous page (such as the Home screen or Safari).
--> Three-finger tap: Speak the scroll status (which page or rows are visible).
--> Four-finger flick up or down: Go to the first or last element on a page.
--> Four-finger flick right or left: Go to the next or previous section (for example, on a webpage).
Select and Activate
--> Double-tap: Activate selected item.
--> Touch an item with one finger, tap the screen with another finger (“split-tapping”): Activate item.
--> Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture.
The double-tap and hold gesture tells iPad to interpret the subsequent gesture as standard.
For example, you can double-tap and hold, and then without lifting your finger, drag your finger to slide a switch.
You can use standard gestures when VoiceOver is turned on, by double-tapping and holding your finger on the screen.
A series of tones indicates that normal gestures are in force. They remain in effect until you lift your finger, then VoiceOver gestures resume.
-->Two-finger double tap: Play or pause in iPod, YouTube, Voice Memos, or Photos.
Start or pause recording in Voice Memos.
Start or stop the stopwatch.
--> Three-finger double tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
--> Three-finger trip tap: Turn the display on or off.
---
You may email me a high quality beer later today for doing your research for you.
You're going to need a cite on this federal law or I call BS. Googling "iPad Kindle ADA" turned up zilch.
---linuxrocks123
I am trying not to let my opinion of the typical Linux/Android Geek be affected by your post. I know better. Most are as sharp as tacks!
"Driving Home the Point on Accessibility June 30, 2010
The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice on Tuesday released an open letter to colleges expressing concern that some institutions might be “using electronic book readers that are not accessible to students who are blind or have low vision” and warning them that the government will crack down on any institutions that are “requiring” disabled students to use emerging technology that does not comply with federal accessibility laws."
And a bunch more at hundreds of links like this one that I copied only the first paragraph from. You really should read the whole thing!
Exactly which "cheaper" Android tablet is available ?
There is absolutely nothing in the world of Android that compares to what Apple by design has built into the iPad OS. It has many thoughtful touches for accessibility that are hidden in the settings menu for those that need it.
Poor vision? There is a toggle to zoom everything
No vision? There is a toggle to read aloud what you are touching on that screen
There is a widespread belief that you can not read the iPad by the pool in direct sunlight do to Amazon Kindle advertising. There is a toggle you can enable that instantly inverts the screen for just that. I set it to do that when I press the Home key rapidly three times so I can view Google maps while out walking and read my email.
Many of these same settings are built into the latest iPhone and iPod Touch too.
With the well designed Apple OS it is easy to build apps that take advantage of these and other features for the handicapped. There is a totally blind person who can take an iPhone 4G and see colors around him by touching the screen with an app that uses the built in camera 'to see'.
The only limitation you have with Apple is your own imagination with the tools they give you.
BTW there is a federal law that the Obama administration is now enforcing that favors the iPad in colleges which are now turning to eBooks. They must make available only tablets or computer eReaders that have all the iPad's features under the Americans with Disabilities Act. That my friend bars Kindles and Nooks and probably most Android tablets when they show up from being used by the colleges for courses that require eBooks.
Unfair, certainly! But the Obama government wants to force a sea change in how consumer electronics are designed and built so all members of society may benefit.
So the carriers in the US must have total control or their network is going to explode, eh? How is it that you can buy whatever device you want and connect it to whatever network you want here in Europe, eh? Why haven't the mobile networks in the EU exploded yet, then, eh?
Because all the devices you have follow the protocol that all the carriers agree on.
if you had a rack of ~100 cell phones, that were all able to broadcast rotating IMEI's and SIM ID's of known users, you could single handedly collapse the entire infrastructure for minutes to hours at a time. and based on how the protocol works, it would wreck havoc on the providers. but being a good bunch of people, you don't! so it all just works.
here in north america: you may only have one tower in reach of you at any time (outside of a major city) meaning that you can do exactly the above with a single rooted handset.
for the record: I'm an android developer, and I fully, FULLY support open handsets globally. however: people need to know how brittle the system is: and without spending hundreds of millions of dollars in patch jobs: it will only get thinner and worse over time.
@ phyrexianshaw.ca
I appreciate such a reasonable and honest post. Could a home grown terrorist use the current flaw in allowing the Android to abuse the cellular network to the point it will collapse in a given area in the USA? I perceive that they could in conjunction with a real physical attack that if they simultaneously attack the cellular communications system they could multiply the pain of their terror damage and slow the response.
Do you think that with the resources of a hostile government, religious fervor, and enough rooted Androids with an ingenious Taliban created app that it would seem they would have enough easily accessible tools to carry out an effective paralyzing terror attack in say D.C.?
Developing something for Android should just be a hobby, a labor of love. To develop any thing for Android expecting to get Apple type returns clearly is foolish from what I read here.
Don't you have a clue about choice for reservations, tickets, etc on Apple iOS devices? There are literally hundreds of apps that make that a snap on the iPhone. Apple iPhone users have that choice in spades without having to resort to a crappy implementation of flash.
Android has some of these apps now except it is such a pain finding the ones that work on my exact version of Android.
@ Namarrgon I feel your pain with flash on the Android, I really do.
My choice is to ignore any vendor who insists on using Adobe flash instead of moving on to HTML5.
250 million users who have already demonstrated they are interested in quality and have disposable income by buying Apple mobile devices are far too many too lose in this down economy just to have disposable old timers in IT who insists on using Adobe flash.
Did anyone else find a bajillion grammatical errors in that article? Judging by his name, I'd assume that English is the author's primary language... that article is barely coherent.
I noticed that Google is cracking down on their Android OS by removing EasyRoot from the App store at Verizon's request Saturday then a bunch more Android tethering apps at T-Mobiles request this week. Then I noticed that someone else in the Android App store had introduced a Trojan that was costing Android users serious money by sending SMS messages transferring money to fake 'charities" such as the hackers bank account.
Not to be outdone the report surfaces of a slick Trojan emptying bank accounts in Europe without the users knowledge in the Windows OS.
All these holes in an OS can end up costing either the carrier serious money in lost revenue or the end user serious money in an empty bank account. I have said it before, out of all the choices one has today, at the present time Apple is the one that is least likely hurt you with their Internet connected products. They have a lot to lose when problems are detected and move as fast as possible to fix them to protect their name.
There are some who are quite vocal in their opposition to Apple but in reality they are no more than a high tech version of the scum rioting for free and subsidized housing permits who then bring crime with them if they move into your neighborhood with government assistance.
They want as much as possible in life for free and open doors for yours too.
For those unfamiliar with this ultracheap Augen tablet, I'll do my best to sum it up: it's an unusable POS that somehow made it into production
Just wonderful. Another bottom feeder to poison Linux sales in big box retail.
I assume you haven't heard that the infamous Chinese manufacturer MTK is raving about Android. To quote..."MTK CFO Yu Ming-to expressed, Android things has a little connotation, application platform is simple, MTK will develop more applications so as to provide customers one-stop service."
MTK can bring tears to your eyes with their beautiful knockoffs of popular phones like the white iPhone 4 etc. for under a hundred dollars. The problem is that MTK can now all by itself cement Android in the public's mind as low end crap for smart phones and Internet tablets.
I love their English, "MTK turning to Google Android platform will be beneficial to the cellphones massification". Translation, Chinese MTK can sell in USA without paying Microsoft a royalty for the OS.
"Android itself based on the platform of the open source operating system, Linux code can be downloaded free via internet, however, Microsoft charge a certain fees from users. Meanwhile, Android Market is more open. In the Google Android Market, all the developer can upload contents after registering, and all the uploaded contents can be found out immediately in the Android Market, which changed the old obtaining way through charging."
"China Mobile, China Unioncom and China Telecom also acknowledged Google Android platform and promote vigourously. MTK smart mobile phones turn to Android; it is obviously conductive to its customer finalist carriers’ custom. "
That is a nice noble fantasy you have. The deal was not settled on who offered more or less bloatware. The deal was based purely upon who would share the most profit. AT&T got exactly nothing when they got the iPhone. That is also the reason why Verizon is completely uninterested in the iPhone. They are not willing to pay the Apple tax and are pretty content to build their Droid line and keep all the profit.
AT&T just came off their most profitable quarter. They sold 3.2 million iPhones 2Q.
Over one million was to customers leaving Verizon and Sprint for the AT&T iPhone.
So in the mind of a/. contributor that is AT&T getting nothing?
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Sure, but you can install a different browser on WM6 et al. If the iPhone browser was broke, you'd be eternally screwed.
I have over a half dozen independent browsers on my non jail broken iPad.
Next?
It's phone makers AND carriers. The only real reason carriers are loving Android is it's the Anti-iPhone. Think about it - the iPhone denies carriers to ability to customize the experience, load up custom helpful apps, and all that stuff. Apple's basically dictated the terms - Apple does the software, you guys sell service (and pay Apple a portion of the profits). The only reason carriers are doing this is because people want the iPhone and they'll line up in droves to get one. What they lose in the iPhone deals, they make up because there are just so freaking many iPhone users (see how the iPhone has been kind ot AT&T's revenue).
I just saw in the news that Verizon's Android customers are getting an update that will be pushed on them over the Verizon network starting next week. It will add V-Cast and the V Cast store so you can add Verizon approved apps to your Android. This is the same crap I had years ago from Verizon on my LG phone.
So Verizon may not have fixed the browser problem but the Android user has a pretty red Verizon V-Cast interface to work with.
Why would it? In most cases they almost seem to be of the attitude that "You bought it, now it's your problem".
It is sad to see this is the norm for the Android World. If a person isn't a Geek who can tinker with the OS without creating a brick, I recommend normal people buy Apple.
Apple has far more to loose if a problem needs to be corrected or new features need to added. Apple is already rolling out a major firmware update to iOS4 on Sunday November 7, 2010 which fixes an alarm error on all mobile OS devices and adds one hundred new features to the iPad. The iPad has been out only seven months and look what Apple is giving those who bought the very first ones during that period.
Motorola, HTC and all the rest could take a page from Apple and take better care of their customers. Right now about 2/3 of all existing Android customers are screwed because of this researcher's ill advised move and the indifference of many hardware manufacturers who have used Android.
So - FFox and Flashblock for the win...
I use both on my AO751h (+ABP), and a 9 cell battery gets me ~10 hours of use, streaming video or whatever. And no damned "Punch the Monkey" ads. Don't see why the same wouldn't work on/for Macs...
I can hook up a heavy Marine Battery to any laptop and stream video using Flash longer than any light Mac Book Air can stream video.
This is a good move by Google even if it will resemble Apple's 'app store governance' to some degree. Google needs to protect their customers/product (one and the same).
There is no Android protection.
If you want the Secret SMS Replicator developed by DLP Mobile then just buy it else where.
All you have to do is a google on Bing! and find the Secret SMS Replicator for sale.
Buy it then carefully plan to use it to get the goods on you know who!
Then SPY, SPY, SPY.
88 Critical flaws on the wall... 88 critical flaws... You take one down, pass it around...
Android: Coverity uncovered "a total of 359 bugs, about one-quarter of which were classified as high-risk".
With Android in your pocket you ARE living on the edge!
Why. Get involved with a Cherrypad when any cheapskate can go to the conner Walgreens and buy a seven inch Android for only a hundred dollars?
Sent from my ten inch iPsad which has proven to be an astonishing bargain at hundreds more.
I don't care if Android will be a better deal some day. I do not want to share in the pain of having a less than optimal Internet connected phone right now, so I choose to only buy and recommend Apple's iPhone and the iPad. If some time in the future I see there is a better experience with something else I will buy that at that time.
Apple has been a remarkably pleasant experience compared to all the purchases I have made since 1960.
If Apple would have a change of heart about such things, I would be their biggest fan. As it is, I am their worst foe.
Why would some one think that Apple or anyone else for that matter cares?
I recall universities (stupidly, imo -- just buy a few paper (or Braille, or whatever) textbooks for the tiny minority of students for whom Kindles are unacceptable) dropping e-textbook plans because of ADA concerns. I don't recall anyone saying that using the iPad instead would have alleviated these concerns.
---linuxrocks123
Do you want my email address for that beer?
Nothing in that link suggests that the government considers the iPad any better or that the Kindle would need any specific features found in the iPad to comply. I vaguely remember that Amazon was working on adding text-to-speech to the Kindle a while back to silence complaints about accessibility.
---linuxrocks123
That first link was from a Kindle fanboy site.
Duh?
Please, it is not difficult to find the rest of the story for this was big news in July/August 2010. I remember reading about it all over the place in iPad discussions. There may have already been references here on /. too.
If I have to go and find the rest of it for you that is going to have to be a whole case of Sam Adams beer you must promise to email me
You're going to need a cite on this federal law or I call BS. Googling "iPad Kindle ADA" turned up zilch.
---linuxrocks123
I might add that Obama's "U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today [Oct 12, 2010] announced the award of $10.9 million for 28 grants under two new federal programs that create opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities to attend and be successful in higher education."
You might consider that the iPad grant after a little more research. That answers other points made on /. as to how are they going to pay for this.
What makes the iPad a leader in this field for ADA compliance?
Here’s a summary of Voiceover gestures using accessibility for the IPAD that are not found in most other similar devices like Android.
You can also download IPAD iSO4 user guide for the IPAD. The download is free; however, the user guide is 303 pages. Here is a short snip on the just the subject of user gestures. It may be helpful for you to see why it complies with ADA in the eyes of the US government!
Navigate and Read
--> Tap: Speak item.
--> Flick right or left: Select the next or previous item.
--> Flick up or down: The effect varies depending on the Rotor Control setting.
See “Using VoiceOver” on page 110.
--> Two-finger tap: Stop speaking the current item.
--> Two-finger flick up: Read all, from the top of the screen.
--> Two-finger flick down: Read all, from the current position.
--> Three-finger flick up or down: Scroll one page at a time.
--> Three-finger flick right or left: Go to the next or previous page (such as the Home screen or Safari).
--> Three-finger tap: Speak the scroll status (which page or rows are visible).
--> Four-finger flick up or down: Go to the first or last element on a page.
--> Four-finger flick right or left: Go to the next or previous section (for example, on a webpage).
Select and Activate
--> Double-tap: Activate selected item.
--> Touch an item with one finger, tap the screen with another finger (“split-tapping”): Activate item.
--> Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture.
The double-tap and hold gesture tells iPad to interpret the subsequent gesture as standard.
For example, you can double-tap and hold, and then without lifting your finger, drag your finger to slide a switch.
You can use standard gestures when VoiceOver is turned on, by double-tapping and holding your finger on the screen.
A series of tones indicates that normal gestures are in force.
They remain in effect until you lift your finger, then VoiceOver gestures resume.
-->Two-finger double tap: Play or pause in iPod, YouTube, Voice Memos, or Photos.
Start or pause recording in Voice Memos.
Start or stop the stopwatch.
--> Three-finger double tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
--> Three-finger trip tap: Turn the display on or off.
---
You may email me a high quality beer later today for doing your research for you.
You're going to need a cite on this federal law or I call BS. Googling "iPad Kindle ADA" turned up zilch.
---linuxrocks123
I am trying not to let my opinion of the typical Linux/Android Geek be affected by your post. I know better. Most are as sharp as tacks!
"Driving Home the Point on Accessibility
June 30, 2010
The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice on Tuesday released an open letter to colleges expressing concern that some institutions might be “using electronic book readers that are not accessible to students who are blind or have low vision” and warning them that the government will crack down on any institutions that are “requiring” disabled students to use emerging technology that does not comply with federal accessibility laws."
And a bunch more at hundreds of links like this one that I copied only the first paragraph from.
You really should read the whole thing!
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/30/kindle
Did I notice the word Kindle in that URL, wow!
Exactly which "cheaper" Android tablet is available ?
There is absolutely nothing in the world of Android that compares to what Apple by design has built into the iPad OS. It has many thoughtful touches for accessibility that are hidden in the settings menu for those that need it.
Poor vision?
There is a toggle to zoom everything
No vision?
There is a toggle to read aloud what you are touching on that screen
There is a widespread belief that you can not read the iPad by the pool in direct sunlight do to Amazon Kindle advertising. There is a toggle you can enable that instantly inverts the screen for just that. I set it to do that when I press the Home key rapidly three times so I can view Google maps while out walking and read my email.
Many of these same settings are built into the latest iPhone and iPod Touch too.
With the well designed Apple OS it is easy to build apps that take advantage of these and other features for the handicapped. There is a totally blind person who can take an iPhone 4G and see colors around him by touching the screen with an app that uses the built in camera 'to see'.
The only limitation you have with Apple is your own imagination with the tools they give you.
BTW there is a federal law that the Obama administration is now enforcing that favors the iPad in colleges which are now turning to eBooks. They must make available only tablets or computer eReaders that have all the iPad's features under the Americans with Disabilities Act. That my friend bars Kindles and Nooks and probably most Android tablets when they show up from being used by the colleges for courses that require eBooks.
Unfair, certainly! But the Obama government wants to force a sea change in how consumer electronics are designed and built so all members of society may benefit.
So the carriers in the US must have total control or their network is going to explode, eh? How is it that you can buy whatever device you want and connect it to whatever network you want here in Europe, eh? Why haven't the mobile networks in the EU exploded yet, then, eh?
Because all the devices you have follow the protocol that all the carriers agree on.
if you had a rack of ~100 cell phones, that were all able to broadcast rotating IMEI's and SIM ID's of known users, you could single handedly collapse the entire infrastructure for minutes to hours at a time. and based on how the protocol works, it would wreck havoc on the providers. but being a good bunch of people, you don't! so it all just works.
here in north america: you may only have one tower in reach of you at any time (outside of a major city) meaning that you can do exactly the above with a single rooted handset.
for the record: I'm an android developer, and I fully, FULLY support open handsets globally. however: people need to know how brittle the system is: and without spending hundreds of millions of dollars in patch jobs: it will only get thinner and worse over time.
@ phyrexianshaw.ca
I appreciate such a reasonable and honest post. Could a home grown terrorist use the current flaw in allowing the Android to abuse the cellular network to the point it will collapse in a given area in the USA? I perceive that they could in conjunction with a real physical attack that if they simultaneously attack the cellular communications system they could multiply the pain of their terror damage and slow the response.
Do you think that with the resources of a hostile government, religious fervor, and enough rooted Androids with an ingenious Taliban created app that it would seem they would have enough easily accessible tools to carry out an effective paralyzing terror attack in say D.C.?
Developing something for Android should just be a hobby, a labor of love. To develop any thing for Android expecting to get Apple type returns clearly is foolish from what I read here.
Animal cruelty charges should be brought, they allowed 4 pets to die...frankly I would be more pissed about that than losing my stuff.
Could the firemen had thought that was merely a Korean barbecue they were watching?
Some sites require flash for menues
Some web designers deserve to be shot.
Fired works for me, they are disposable assets IMHO.
@Nikker and others
Don't you have a clue about choice for reservations, tickets, etc on Apple iOS devices? There are literally hundreds of apps that make that a snap on the iPhone. Apple iPhone users have that choice in spades without having to resort to a crappy implementation of flash.
Android has some of these apps now except it is such a pain finding the ones that work on my exact version of Android.
@ Namarrgon
I feel your pain with flash on the Android, I really do.
My choice is to ignore any vendor who insists on using Adobe flash instead of moving on to HTML5.
250 million users who have already demonstrated they are interested in quality and have disposable income by buying Apple mobile devices are far too many too lose in this down economy just to have disposable old timers in IT who insists on using Adobe flash.
"Enabling no-added-cost tethering is the best reason to jailbreak an iPhone."
Isn't that just another way of saying the best reason to jailbreak is so I can go out and steal a service.
Did anyone else find a bajillion grammatical errors in that article? Judging by his name, I'd assume that English is the author's primary language... that article is barely coherent.
It is the drugs my son.
I noticed that Google is cracking down on their Android OS by removing EasyRoot from the App store at Verizon's request Saturday then a bunch more Android tethering apps at T-Mobiles request this week. Then I noticed that someone else in the Android App store had introduced a Trojan that was costing Android users serious money by sending SMS messages transferring money to fake 'charities" such as the hackers bank account.
Not to be outdone the report surfaces of a slick Trojan emptying bank accounts in Europe without the users knowledge in the Windows OS.
All these holes in an OS can end up costing either the carrier serious money in lost revenue or the end user serious money in an empty bank account. I have said it before, out of all the choices one has today, at the present time Apple is the one that is least likely hurt you with their Internet connected products. They have a lot to lose when problems are detected and move as fast as possible to fix them to protect their name.
There are some who are quite vocal in their opposition to Apple but in reality they are no more than a high tech version of the scum rioting for free and subsidized housing permits who then bring crime with them if they move into your neighborhood with government assistance.
They want as much as possible in life for free and open doors for yours too.
For those unfamiliar with this ultracheap Augen tablet, I'll do my best to sum it up: it's an unusable POS that somehow made it into production
Just wonderful. Another bottom feeder to poison Linux sales in big box retail.
I assume you haven't heard that the infamous Chinese manufacturer MTK is raving about Android.
To quote..."MTK CFO Yu Ming-to expressed, Android things has a little connotation, application platform is simple, MTK will develop more applications so as to provide customers one-stop service."
MTK can bring tears to your eyes with their beautiful knockoffs of popular phones like the white iPhone 4 etc. for under a hundred dollars. The problem is that MTK can now all by itself cement Android in the public's mind as low end crap for smart phones and Internet tablets.
I love their English, "MTK turning to Google Android platform will be beneficial to the cellphones massification". Translation, Chinese MTK can sell in USA without paying Microsoft a royalty for the OS.
"Android itself based on the platform of the open source operating system, Linux code can be downloaded free via internet, however, Microsoft charge a certain fees from users. Meanwhile, Android Market is more open. In the Google Android Market, all the developer can upload contents after registering, and all the uploaded contents can be found out immediately in the Android Market, which changed the old obtaining way through charging."
"China Mobile, China Unioncom and China Telecom also acknowledged Google Android platform and promote vigourously. MTK smart mobile phones turn to Android; it is obviously conductive to its customer finalist carriers’ custom. "
That is a nice noble fantasy you have. The deal was not settled on who offered more or less bloatware. The deal was based purely upon who would share the most profit. AT&T got exactly nothing when they got the iPhone. That is also the reason why Verizon is completely uninterested in the iPhone. They are not willing to pay the Apple tax and are pretty content to build their Droid line and keep all the profit.
AT&T just came off their most profitable quarter. They sold 3.2 million iPhones 2Q. Over one million was to customers leaving Verizon and Sprint for the AT&T iPhone. So in the mind of a /. contributor that is AT&T getting nothing?