They're getting easier and easier to spot everyday. Strangely, the shill accounts lately seem to all have 4-5 characters in the name. They come on very strong first posting on almost every article, people hip on to the game and start modding them down and right around the time they start posting at default zero, the account goes mute. Imagine that.
With all due respect, you are deluding yourself if you actually think ego and pride play no part in the decisions made by the people pulling strings at large corporations.
Wow. A post from this bonch character that paints google in a negative light. Color me surprised. this guy hates the google and android look through his posting history.
It's news because the original story detailing that Google would not be supporting this software once again gave the shills and google haters something to crow about. google is abandoning teachers, google is abandoning disadvantaged people, and women, ad nauseum. I don't feel like dragging up the link to the original Slashdot story about this but it was some professor somewhere who literally said those things. It was ridiculous. And of course everyone with an axe to grind chimed in. I think in the face of that, a positive followup story is well appreciated.
Did you even read the press release when Ms and Nokia announced the whole thing? you know, the part where they said they would share engineering resources and Nokia would drive windows phone forward? and the part where Microsoft paid Nokia billions? but, hey, don't reality get in the wayof your fantasy. I meanits not like your rockoon account isn't used for the express purpose of shilling for Ms. *wink*
So then you agree that for whatever reason, Nokia is getting special treatment and for the MS exec quoted on the article to pretend otherwise is a pine black lie.
The last time I saw you posting about this issue, I personally downloaded the Chase app and then copied it from the phone, put it on dropbox and posted a link for you.
The Market application is just that. An application. It adds a ton of value to Android but it is not Android anymore than iTunes is OSX or Internet Explorer is Windows despite MS' protestations to the contrary. To put an even finer point on it, it is only in the last few years that people have any expectation of a default application delivery mechanism be included with an operating system. Does that makes Windows not Windows because it doesn't have an analog to the market? Of course not. With Windows, you can search the internet and download what you need. As it is with Android.
It's a fork that keeps being remerged periodically so I'm not sure it counts as the classical definition of a fork. By that definition, every Linux distro is a fork as they all download the vanilla kernel and modify it in various ways then wait 6 months-ish and do it all over again. Everytime I check a new version of Android, the kernel number has advanced a couple of notches so they are definitely doing essentially the same thing.
Absolutely. My OG Droid with less RAM and a decidedly aging chipset but running Cyanogenmod 7 is faster than my girlfriend's stock Galaxy S. It stuns me that a rag-tag group of enthusiasts can so thoroughly spank a billion dollar corporation's highly funded professional developer group. I wish Steve the best as I have enjoyed his work starting with my old G1 and now with my OG Droid that, honestly, without cyanogen, I would have chucked in the trash long ago. Hmm... Maybe that's why the hardware makers put crap like motoblur and touchwiz on their handsets. People upgrade out of frustration. Android's future is has never looked better what with GoMo, SamgenMod and HTC unlocking their bootloaders. If MS and Apple were worried about the Android train before they're probably shitting their pants now!
Cyanogenmod is a great ROM but, I assure you, it isn't the only one. Samsung would go broke before they could hire all of the Android modders out there. Not to mention the fact that the cellphone version of Android is available in its entirety in source form from AOSP so they'd have to buy Google while they were at it. Ha. Last but not least, they gave a Galaxy S 2 to the Cyanogenmod team a couple of months back explicitely condoning the porting of cyanogenmod to it. It looks to me like they are searching for a competitive advantage and with Steve Kondik, they've got it.
Call it whatever you want but it is pathetic and marks Bing as a failure. MS has demoted Bing to little more than Google results aggregator. Why use the pale inferior imitator when you can use the original and still the best?
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They're getting easier and easier to spot everyday. Strangely, the shill accounts lately seem to all have 4-5 characters in the name. They come on very strong first posting on almost every article, people hip on to the game and start modding them down and right around the time they start posting at default zero, the account goes mute. Imagine that.
I'll tell you what, I'll let you know how much they're paying me if you'll agree to accept my check in exchange to never post on Slashdot again. Deal?
Besides, I'm not quite comfortable with Google's datamining.
Oh look! It's another paid Facebook hypocrite shill. Didn't you guys' astroturfing campaign get exposed months ago? And you're still at it?
Thou doth protest too much
You just got trolled. You do realize this right? The guy is anti-google and he just threw out bait for more anti-Google rhetoric. You are a stooge.
It is truly a thing of beauty.
With all due respect, you are deluding yourself if you actually think ego and pride play no part in the decisions made by the people pulling strings at large corporations.
You sound like a raving lunatic. Please seek help.
Wow. A post from this bonch character that paints google in a negative light. Color me surprised. this guy hates the google and android look through his posting history.
Sure. Oh, that's right, I just went back through your recent posting history. You're a shill. Attempting to obfuscate the fact doesn't change it.
It's news because the original story detailing that Google would not be supporting this software once again gave the shills and google haters something to crow about. google is abandoning teachers, google is abandoning disadvantaged people, and women, ad nauseum. I don't feel like dragging up the link to the original Slashdot story about this but it was some professor somewhere who literally said those things. It was ridiculous. And of course everyone with an axe to grind chimed in. I think in the face of that, a positive followup story is well appreciated.
Did you even read the press release when Ms and Nokia announced the whole thing? you know, the part where they said they would share engineering resources and Nokia would drive windows phone forward? and the part where Microsoft paid Nokia billions? but, hey, don't reality get in the wayof your fantasy. I meanits not like your rockoon account isn't used for the express purpose of shilling for Ms. *wink*
You have a flawed premise. I'll let you figure out which one it is.
So then you agree that for whatever reason, Nokia is getting special treatment and for the MS exec quoted on the article to pretend otherwise is a pine black lie.
Did you eat too much lead based paint as a child? I'm not trying to be funny, I'm legitimately concerned.
If I didn't implicitly endorse a companies policies, I wouldn't work there.
How much do you jokes get paid to regurgitate the same talking points over and over ad nauseum?
That's a good question. I'll look into it.
Here it is again.
What does this have to do with vanilla AOSP Android again?
The Market application is just that. An application. It adds a ton of value to Android but it is not Android anymore than iTunes is OSX or Internet Explorer is Windows despite MS' protestations to the contrary. To put an even finer point on it, it is only in the last few years that people have any expectation of a default application delivery mechanism be included with an operating system. Does that makes Windows not Windows because it doesn't have an analog to the market? Of course not. With Windows, you can search the internet and download what you need. As it is with Android.
It's a fork that keeps being remerged periodically so I'm not sure it counts as the classical definition of a fork. By that definition, every Linux distro is a fork as they all download the vanilla kernel and modify it in various ways then wait 6 months-ish and do it all over again. Everytime I check a new version of Android, the kernel number has advanced a couple of notches so they are definitely doing essentially the same thing.
Or maybe it's just the lack of it.
Absolutely. My OG Droid with less RAM and a decidedly aging chipset but running Cyanogenmod 7 is faster than my girlfriend's stock Galaxy S. It stuns me that a rag-tag group of enthusiasts can so thoroughly spank a billion dollar corporation's highly funded professional developer group. I wish Steve the best as I have enjoyed his work starting with my old G1 and now with my OG Droid that, honestly, without cyanogen, I would have chucked in the trash long ago. Hmm... Maybe that's why the hardware makers put crap like motoblur and touchwiz on their handsets. People upgrade out of frustration. Android's future is has never looked better what with GoMo, SamgenMod and HTC unlocking their bootloaders. If MS and Apple were worried about the Android train before they're probably shitting their pants now!
Cyanogenmod is a great ROM but, I assure you, it isn't the only one. Samsung would go broke before they could hire all of the Android modders out there. Not to mention the fact that the cellphone version of Android is available in its entirety in source form from AOSP so they'd have to buy Google while they were at it. Ha. Last but not least, they gave a Galaxy S 2 to the Cyanogenmod team a couple of months back explicitely condoning the porting of cyanogenmod to it. It looks to me like they are searching for a competitive advantage and with Steve Kondik, they've got it.
Call it whatever you want but it is pathetic and marks Bing as a failure. MS has demoted Bing to little more than Google results aggregator. Why use the pale inferior imitator when you can use the original and still the best?