There's a huge difference between a jailbreak or a rooting and installing an official update.
Thats an understatement.
Jailbreaking - hacking an operating systems against the vendors wishes. This introduces new instabilities and the vendor seems to be fighting this tooth and nail.
Rooting - gaining root access, this is done in a variety of ways. On my milestone it is done by installing a signed ROM that has root access. Instructions are here.
You don't need to root in order to install an official signed update, just follow the same procedure as above if you don't want to wait for it to be delivered OTA. HTC phones can be updated in the same way. Stop trying to spread FUD about Android, if you don't know how Android works please remain out of the conversation.
If I had to run something like PurpleRa1n, or redsn0w to install an OS update for my phone that's a little over a year and a half old, I'd junk the phone and just get a phone that didn't require me to do something so ridiculous to get official software.
If I had to use this procedure just to get basic functionality on my phone I'd junk it and get a phone that allowed me to run my own applications without jumping through ridiculous hoops. Sorry fanboy but you are definitely on the losing side of this argument. Rooting an Android phone is easy and presents no risk, where as jailbreaking an Iphone presents a risk and that jailbreak will not work with the next update. I'd rather have a phone that actually allows me to do what I want with it, not what the vendor deems suitable for me to do.
HTC never promised 2.0, they updated the phones Dream to 1.5 and then to 1.6 when it was released. They are continuing to provide patches for 1.6, so stop trying to spread FUD. It's not like the Iphone 3G has all the functionality of the 3GS and there was only a year between those two models. So Apple is being many times as lazy as HTC as HTC is working on many handsets, not just the one. Your expectations are unrealistic but you planned it that way but here's the brilliant thing about Android, if the Vendor isn't doing what I want, I get to pick another OS manufacturer or even make one myself (as is the case with the Dream and 2.1). Can you say the same thing about Apple, could you even start the phone without Itunes?
Google is the precursor to a global government. Nations should just realize this now and surrender as soon as possible. No use standing in the way of Progress.
And I for one welcome our new search engine overlords and would like to remind them that as a person of some influence may be useful in rounding up others to toil in their underground data mines.
Motorola (at the request of AT&T) specifically disabled all ability to load an APK file outside of the Android Marketplace (i.e. the "unknown sources" checkbox doesn't even exist on the Backflip)
Well that explains it, ROW gets a different ROM without these restrictions. Disregard the sarcasm.
but...
The problem is not with Motorola or Android, problem is with AT&T and will continue until you have an equally powerful force to oppose AT&T and their cohorts (Verizon and so forth) HINT: the power of the consumer is not enough.
I don't want government to have this kind of private info because they can use it against you. Private businesses can't put your in jail because you might be Japanese during a time of war with the Japanese government. A business also can't put you in jail because out of frustration you flame mailed their CEO like you might if you flame the President.
You might want to re-think that one tiger,
After all you yanks pride yourself on being more "free" then us Aussies or Europeans with our non-corporate governments. I can send flame mail to the Honourable *belch* Kevin Rudd and have no ill effects (in fact under Australian Law the government has to respond).
Besides you are wrong on both counts. If I were to send a death threat to the CEO of Newscorp I'd be arrested in short order, the same as if I sent a Death Threat to President Obama, Prime Minister Rudd or Neelie Kroes. So corporations can have me arrested when I commit a crime, strangely enough just like the government.
Credit Bureaus can collect my data, but they do not have the power to arrest me
They dont need to arrest you, they'll just destroy your credit rating, make enough bad reports about you that you cant get a loan or have difficulty finding a job. They don't need to arrest, that is so inefficient and gives you some recourse in the court, private corporations can destroy you with the stroke of a pen so why would they keep a paramilitary force around for the same job.
With the government, I know there are methods of recourse, rules and punishment for breaking those rules. If Facebook sells my data I have no recourse, if Medicare (Australia) sells my data I get investigations, punishments, perhaps even a royal commission. If the government arrests me, I get my day in court, if the NAB decides to turn me into a credit risk, I have no recourse.
I've never understood the USian paranoia surrounding it's government, if the system is broken, fix it. If the people in the system are broken, remove them. This is a very simple concept, if you have trouble with finding popular support then then perhaps your own ideas are flawed. Then again I live in a nation with a government that actually works for the people, not the corporations.
Except they can't pass that cost on to the consumer, because they're still competing in a highly fungible market.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha/wipes tear from eye.
Most of us stopped believing that the oil companies were actually competing and not colluding before we stopped believing in the tooth fairy and honest politicians. Shell, Exxon and so forth will be happy to get the extra profits whilst BP passes on the cost to the consumer.
Right, but what average user is going to potentially brick their phone for what should be a vendor supplied patch? Rooting/Jailbreaking a device? Sure. A real OS update? No.
Right, because no-one jailbreaks an Iphone because of the risk it might brick their device.
Installing a custom ROM is easier then Jailbreaking, the SPL does all the work for you. Rooting is the hard part but generally someone uninformed will pay someone else to do it. Also neither rooting nor replacing the OS can brick an Android device, seeing as the boot loader is completely separated from the OS, if the OS upgrade goes bad you don't brick the whole phone, you just re-install the standard ROM (Both HTC and Motorola have them on their web site). To brick an Android device you need to break the boot loader from inside the OS, then break the OS and after all that you can still recover the whole thing using the tools in the SDK (Fastboot IIRC)
So after correcting your erroneous information about Android and people in general, your point is moot, 2.1 is available for the HTC Dream and Magic.
I once asked Blizard this very question but the only response I received was "who are you", "where did you get this number" and "never call here again".
Apple does not require developers to use Apple tools, only the approved languages,
No, Apple requires the program to be originally written in the approved languages. This is done deliberately to prevent code being written for multiple languages and provide a disincentive for releasing an application for the Iphone and one of its competitors. Especially since most of their big competitors use Java.
If Apple has acted in good faith, then they have nothing to fear about an Anti-Trust investigation. I've also said the same thing about Google and this pretty much applies to any company.
Get a google search widget from the marketplace. Problem solved.
B) Doesn't let you use non-market apps by default
If only Android would ask you if you wanted to "Enable Third Party Applications" when you try to install a third party.apk.
No...
wait...
IT DOES
Have you even used Android?
If Android did this all the Iphone fanboys would squeal with delight saying that there is no control on Android. It takes three seconds to enable this functionality. Go to Settings - Applications and check "Unknown Sources" or just try to install a third party.apk file. Problem solved
C) Has crap software.
Define Software.
Do you mean the Motorola provided software or the customised AT&T software? Perhaps you mean third party applications from the marketplace. If you mean Google applications like Maps, Gmail, Goggles and so forth you will find your experience differs from that of most people.
I'm sorry but this post is FUD, you can do better then this. Please resubmit.
How do you figure this article implies that, in any way. A _FORMER_ employee of the company offers her thoughts and you view that as an entire company running scared? Ok. Sure.
Not just this article, most of Apple's actions have been to attack Google and Android of late. Starting with the HTC law suits, then the two "porn store" comments specifically targeting Android dropped into completely unrelated keynotes. Then the threats against Theora and other open source codecs (VP8).
Apple is scared because the farm pretty much relies on the Iphone now. Apple got their wish by making people combine their MP3 player and Phone, now if the Apple Phone dies or is diminished Apple goes back to being an obscure tech company only used by a tiny subset of fanboys.
Wow, its amazing the PC industry hasn't collapsed under the weight of all this testing, I mean with so many versions of Windows,.net, DirectX, Java. I mean it's so fragmented. Then you have the hardware.
All these problems have been solved on the PC, now they just need to make the transition to Android. How does MS, Adobe, Blizzard, ECT... ensure that their software works on multiple platforms. Beta testing, various other testing tools. You know that you can run any version of Android on a VM, it's in the SDK, simple applications can be tested in that fashion, only the complex applications have the issue you describe. Many of the applications I use on my Motorola Milestone have not been updated since the HTC Dream was the only game in town and they still work, some get updated on a near weekly basis.
Android is new, we are waiting for the tools to catch up. Soon the costs chances of getting a random rejection from the Apple app store will be higher then developing for Android. Fortunately, most of the companies jumping into the mobile development space are simply doing it because it is the Latest Cool Thing(TM) and havent put too much thought into it, thus they wont survive.
The fact is though. The HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1 was one of the first mass market Android devices out there, released a few months after the iPhone 3G and it's not getting 2.xx goodness, yet the iPhone 3G is.
Au contraire enter the brilliance of Open Source and Android.
Then you got it wrong, did you read the link you provided as it said nothing of the sort.
He expressly said
C - Do you agree that from January 2002 to the present there has been statistically significant global cooling?
No. This period is even shorter than 1995-2009. The trend this time is negative (-0.12C per decade), but this trend is not statistically significant.
Only the Daily Mail re-interpreted that as no warming in the last 10 years.
From the link you provided.
B - Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming
Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for shorter periods.
Also you might want to note that in 1998 there was a massive temperature anomaly related to ENSO (IIRC) which affects the average. Graph is here courtesy of NASA, article is here. There still has been an increase since 1995, expect the 09/10 data to be pretty bad due to ENSO, several Australian cities including Perth and Darwin just sweltered through their hottest summers ever, most of the world had fairly warm winters (this is overshadowed by the cold snaps in UK, Washington caused by a shift in the polar jet stream, which is consistent with previous ENSO events).
Natural events like ENSO are going to ensure that this is not a linear progression, 10 years is not long enough to collect enough data to establish a global trend, 15 years is barely enough data. Which is what professor Jones said and why most graphs are 50 to 100 years. It was a British tabloid that said there is no significant warming in the last 10 years, not Phil Jones.
When you allow the government to grant monopolies to private corporations.
It encourages them to try to control the market not by providing the best services to their consumers but instead by exploiting the patent systems to squash their competition and lock in consumers.
Ummm... so if left alone by the eeeeeevil gubbermiunt corporations will not attempt to gain a monopoly and do exactly what you described.
Well I'm glad the US government never granted Microsoft a monopoly then aren't I because they certainly aren't trying to lock out competitors and exploit patent systems now are they.
HINT: Regulations should be made to limit the power of monopolies and to break up or otherwise neuter abusive monopolies.
And Apple knows how to sell computers, not phones, or music, or books. Oh wait...
Apple just knows how to sell.
This I do not doubt, it's their ablity to design and make decent products that I doubt and their use of marketing to cover up for this deficiency this that I despise.
Not sure why everyone assumes that Android is a better choice for HP than webOS.
Because Android survived, WebOS didn't.
I can already feel the flames of the WebOS fanboys but hear me out.
WebOS had a short series of incredibly bad decisions that lead to it being stillborn, the application development framework was inferior to that of Android and Iphone, they were late in releasing an SDK and I'm not sure if they ever released an NDK. The original plan was to have applications as web apps, which doesn't work with a vast majority of applications.
The Marketing didn't help either, Palm wanted an ad that few people who saw it would forget, that worked but it worked against them by turning their best audience against them. Palm's traditional audience had business people and geeks, generally intelligent and concrete thinkers. To create and use an ad that appealed to the more abstract thinkers was a massive mistake.
The hardware was less then stellar. A few user unfriendly aspects in the Pre's hardware made it less desirable, namely the fairly sharp bottom edge when the KB was open. Also the decision to go CDMA limited it's release to 1 (one) first world country during the greatest economic downturn in 80 years. The GSM version was too little too late as Android had a firm hold in Europe and was (is still) rapidly advancing.
Now, please dear fanboys, put down the torches and pitchforks. To be totally honest, whilst I prefer Android I'd rather see Web OS then Iphone or Windows OS's being adopted, Android is coming out ahead because whilst Palm was floundering with WebOS Android was making huge leaps forward and manufacturers were adopting Android because Google could be counted on. Android is ahead in technology, adoption and in the case of WebOS, marketing.
Hahahah everyone loves to bash those darn lawyers and their evil-doing ways. Oh except those ones down at Legal Aid who protect battered wives. Or the ones in Law School Clinics who represent the poor against giant corporations. Or the ones at the ACLU arguing on behalf of the constitution. Or the ones at the EFF who fight for things we like. Or the government ones going after companies who pollute or exploit or violate or whatever else have you. Or that one who protected your interests in that road accident. Or the public defender who kept your innocent buddy out of jail. Or the public prosecutor who got that murderer put into jail. Or that one who went after the government for that thing it was doing wrong.
But for every one good lawyer defending our rights there are three bad ones helping the likes of Phillip Morris kill people.
The problem is not lawyers in so far, we've has lawyers in one form or another since we've had organised governments. The problem is that 1. We do not punish lawyers that knowingly do wrong, it is very difficult for a lawyer to be disbarred, even then that (in the US) is on a state by state basis most of the time (Jack Thomson has only been disbarred in Florida). 2. We permit a system that not only allows unethical conduct by lawyers but encourages it by permitting lawyers to receive significant rewards for knowingly engaging in unethical conduct (defending tobacco companies, burring small companies with spurious patent suits, suing grandmothers for sharing a 0.99 USD file).
We need to fix the system that if a lawyer can be proven to have knowingly acted unethically they can be fined into bankruptcy and make them accessories to criminal acts if they are defended (see the James Hardie asbestos cases, the plan was to draw out the case long enough for most of the victims to die) so that the lawyers will also see the inside of a jail. Societies problem is that Lawyers get paid more then Engineers, we need to change this so that building things becomes more important then locking them down legally.
But 10 years of no statistically significant warming?
At what point do they decide...something fishy is going on here?
Consider the source, this information was published by the Daily Mail, one of Brittan's worst tabloids and are constantly in court over one libel case or another.
The Daily Mail published quotes from a BBC interview were out of context. So something does seem fishy but it's easier to vilify the scientists then to punish publishers when they deliberately publish misleading information.
Didn't one of the leading tabloids come out and make up stories there wasn't any statistically important heating of the earth over the past 10 years?
There, fixed that for you.
The Daily Mail twisted the words of a scientist who was interviewed by The BBC when he said the rate of warming had decreased, not that temperatures had decreased.
Slashdot Mirror
We'll paint it black and market to the death metal crowd.
But this is Apple, Lord Steve will just declare IPv6 to be bad and banish it from the kingdom.
As an Apple aficionado is about to tell me, they don't need IPv6 as AppleTalk is the future of the web.
Thats an understatement.
Jailbreaking - hacking an operating systems against the vendors wishes. This introduces new instabilities and the vendor seems to be fighting this tooth and nail.
Rooting - gaining root access, this is done in a variety of ways. On my milestone it is done by installing a signed ROM that has root access. Instructions are here.
You don't need to root in order to install an official signed update, just follow the same procedure as above if you don't want to wait for it to be delivered OTA. HTC phones can be updated in the same way. Stop trying to spread FUD about Android, if you don't know how Android works please remain out of the conversation.
If I had to use this procedure just to get basic functionality on my phone I'd junk it and get a phone that allowed me to run my own applications without jumping through ridiculous hoops. Sorry fanboy but you are definitely on the losing side of this argument. Rooting an Android phone is easy and presents no risk, where as jailbreaking an Iphone presents a risk and that jailbreak will not work with the next update. I'd rather have a phone that actually allows me to do what I want with it, not what the vendor deems suitable for me to do.
HTC never promised 2.0, they updated the phones Dream to 1.5 and then to 1.6 when it was released. They are continuing to provide patches for 1.6, so stop trying to spread FUD. It's not like the Iphone 3G has all the functionality of the 3GS and there was only a year between those two models. So Apple is being many times as lazy as HTC as HTC is working on many handsets, not just the one. Your expectations are unrealistic but you planned it that way but here's the brilliant thing about Android, if the Vendor isn't doing what I want, I get to pick another OS manufacturer or even make one myself (as is the case with the Dream and 2.1). Can you say the same thing about Apple, could you even start the phone without Itunes?
And I for one welcome our new search engine overlords and would like to remind them that as a person of some influence may be useful in rounding up others to toil in their underground data mines.
Dear lord that page is hideous, would it look any better in IE 6?
Well that explains it, ROW gets a different ROM without these restrictions. Disregard the sarcasm.
but...
The problem is not with Motorola or Android, problem is with AT&T and will continue until you have an equally powerful force to oppose AT&T and their cohorts (Verizon and so forth) HINT: the power of the consumer is not enough.
Try a custom ROM.
You might want to re-think that one tiger,
After all you yanks pride yourself on being more "free" then us Aussies or Europeans with our non-corporate governments. I can send flame mail to the Honourable *belch* Kevin Rudd and have no ill effects (in fact under Australian Law the government has to respond).
Besides you are wrong on both counts. If I were to send a death threat to the CEO of Newscorp I'd be arrested in short order, the same as if I sent a Death Threat to President Obama, Prime Minister Rudd or Neelie Kroes. So corporations can have me arrested when I commit a crime, strangely enough just like the government.
They dont need to arrest you, they'll just destroy your credit rating, make enough bad reports about you that you cant get a loan or have difficulty finding a job. They don't need to arrest, that is so inefficient and gives you some recourse in the court, private corporations can destroy you with the stroke of a pen so why would they keep a paramilitary force around for the same job.
With the government, I know there are methods of recourse, rules and punishment for breaking those rules. If Facebook sells my data I have no recourse, if Medicare (Australia) sells my data I get investigations, punishments, perhaps even a royal commission. If the government arrests me, I get my day in court, if the NAB decides to turn me into a credit risk, I have no recourse.
I've never understood the USian paranoia surrounding it's government, if the system is broken, fix it. If the people in the system are broken, remove them. This is a very simple concept, if you have trouble with finding popular support then then perhaps your own ideas are flawed. Then again I live in a nation with a government that actually works for the people, not the corporations.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha /wipes tear from eye.
Most of us stopped believing that the oil companies were actually competing and not colluding before we stopped believing in the tooth fairy and honest politicians. Shell, Exxon and so forth will be happy to get the extra profits whilst BP passes on the cost to the consumer.
Right, because no-one jailbreaks an Iphone because of the risk it might brick their device.
Installing a custom ROM is easier then Jailbreaking, the SPL does all the work for you. Rooting is the hard part but generally someone uninformed will pay someone else to do it. Also neither rooting nor replacing the OS can brick an Android device, seeing as the boot loader is completely separated from the OS, if the OS upgrade goes bad you don't brick the whole phone, you just re-install the standard ROM (Both HTC and Motorola have them on their web site). To brick an Android device you need to break the boot loader from inside the OS, then break the OS and after all that you can still recover the whole thing using the tools in the SDK (Fastboot IIRC)
So after correcting your erroneous information about Android and people in general, your point is moot, 2.1 is available for the HTC Dream and Magic.
I agree, why bother.
I once asked Blizard this very question but the only response I received was "who are you", "where did you get this number" and "never call here again".
I thought it meant "I cant be arsed configuring Debian".
But as anyone who has studied a non-Latin language could tell you, there is rarely a direct word to word translation.
No, Apple requires the program to be originally written in the approved languages. This is done deliberately to prevent code being written for multiple languages and provide a disincentive for releasing an application for the Iphone and one of its competitors. Especially since most of their big competitors use Java.
If Apple has acted in good faith, then they have nothing to fear about an Anti-Trust investigation. I've also said the same thing about Google and this pretty much applies to any company.
Get a google search widget from the marketplace. Problem solved.
If only Android would ask you if you wanted to "Enable Third Party Applications" when you try to install a third party .apk.
.apk file. Problem solved
No...
wait...
IT DOES
Have you even used Android?
If Android did this all the Iphone fanboys would squeal with delight saying that there is no control on Android. It takes three seconds to enable this functionality. Go to Settings - Applications and check "Unknown Sources" or just try to install a third party
Define Software.
Do you mean the Motorola provided software or the customised AT&T software? Perhaps you mean third party applications from the marketplace. If you mean Google applications like Maps, Gmail, Goggles and so forth you will find your experience differs from that of most people.
I'm sorry but this post is FUD, you can do better then this. Please resubmit.
The article was written by an Apple employee, did you expect anything less then top grade* high priced iFUD.
* top grade does not mean higher quality, it means we charge twice as much and paint it white.
Not just this article, most of Apple's actions have been to attack Google and Android of late. Starting with the HTC law suits, then the two "porn store" comments specifically targeting Android dropped into completely unrelated keynotes. Then the threats against Theora and other open source codecs (VP8).
Apple is scared because the farm pretty much relies on the Iphone now. Apple got their wish by making people combine their MP3 player and Phone, now if the Apple Phone dies or is diminished Apple goes back to being an obscure tech company only used by a tiny subset of fanboys.
Wow, its amazing the PC industry hasn't collapsed under the weight of all this testing, I mean with so many versions of Windows, .net, DirectX, Java. I mean it's so fragmented. Then you have the hardware.
All these problems have been solved on the PC, now they just need to make the transition to Android. How does MS, Adobe, Blizzard, ECT... ensure that their software works on multiple platforms. Beta testing, various other testing tools. You know that you can run any version of Android on a VM, it's in the SDK, simple applications can be tested in that fashion, only the complex applications have the issue you describe. Many of the applications I use on my Motorola Milestone have not been updated since the HTC Dream was the only game in town and they still work, some get updated on a near weekly basis.
Android is new, we are waiting for the tools to catch up. Soon the costs chances of getting a random rejection from the Apple app store will be higher then developing for Android. Fortunately, most of the companies jumping into the mobile development space are simply doing it because it is the Latest Cool Thing(TM) and havent put too much thought into it, thus they wont survive.
Au contraire enter the brilliance of Open Source and Android.
Android modder Cyanogen has ported his version 5 mod based on Android 2.1 to the G1/Dream and MyTouch3G/Magic.
With Android, you are not beholden to a single supplier of updates.
Then you got it wrong, did you read the link you provided as it said nothing of the sort.
He expressly said
Only the Daily Mail re-interpreted that as no warming in the last 10 years.
From the link you provided.
Also you might want to note that in 1998 there was a massive temperature anomaly related to ENSO (IIRC) which affects the average. Graph is here courtesy of NASA, article is here. There still has been an increase since 1995, expect the 09/10 data to be pretty bad due to ENSO, several Australian cities including Perth and Darwin just sweltered through their hottest summers ever, most of the world had fairly warm winters (this is overshadowed by the cold snaps in UK, Washington caused by a shift in the polar jet stream, which is consistent with previous ENSO events).
Natural events like ENSO are going to ensure that this is not a linear progression, 10 years is not long enough to collect enough data to establish a global trend, 15 years is barely enough data. Which is what professor Jones said and why most graphs are 50 to 100 years. It was a British tabloid that said there is no significant warming in the last 10 years, not Phil Jones.
Ummm... so if left alone by the eeeeeevil gubbermiunt corporations will not attempt to gain a monopoly and do exactly what you described.
Well I'm glad the US government never granted Microsoft a monopoly then aren't I because they certainly aren't trying to lock out competitors and exploit patent systems now are they.
HINT: Regulations should be made to limit the power of monopolies and to break up or otherwise neuter abusive monopolies.
Apple just knows how to sell.
This I do not doubt, it's their ablity to design and make decent products that I doubt and their use of marketing to cover up for this deficiency this that I despise.
Because Android survived, WebOS didn't.
I can already feel the flames of the WebOS fanboys but hear me out.
WebOS had a short series of incredibly bad decisions that lead to it being stillborn, the application development framework was inferior to that of Android and Iphone, they were late in releasing an SDK and I'm not sure if they ever released an NDK. The original plan was to have applications as web apps, which doesn't work with a vast majority of applications.
The Marketing didn't help either, Palm wanted an ad that few people who saw it would forget, that worked but it worked against them by turning their best audience against them. Palm's traditional audience had business people and geeks, generally intelligent and concrete thinkers. To create and use an ad that appealed to the more abstract thinkers was a massive mistake.
The hardware was less then stellar. A few user unfriendly aspects in the Pre's hardware made it less desirable, namely the fairly sharp bottom edge when the KB was open. Also the decision to go CDMA limited it's release to 1 (one) first world country during the greatest economic downturn in 80 years. The GSM version was too little too late as Android had a firm hold in Europe and was (is still) rapidly advancing.
Now, please dear fanboys, put down the torches and pitchforks. To be totally honest, whilst I prefer Android I'd rather see Web OS then Iphone or Windows OS's being adopted, Android is coming out ahead because whilst Palm was floundering with WebOS Android was making huge leaps forward and manufacturers were adopting Android because Google could be counted on. Android is ahead in technology, adoption and in the case of WebOS, marketing.
But for every one good lawyer defending our rights there are three bad ones helping the likes of Phillip Morris kill people.
The problem is not lawyers in so far, we've has lawyers in one form or another since we've had organised governments. The problem is that 1. We do not punish lawyers that knowingly do wrong, it is very difficult for a lawyer to be disbarred, even then that (in the US) is on a state by state basis most of the time (Jack Thomson has only been disbarred in Florida). 2. We permit a system that not only allows unethical conduct by lawyers but encourages it by permitting lawyers to receive significant rewards for knowingly engaging in unethical conduct (defending tobacco companies, burring small companies with spurious patent suits, suing grandmothers for sharing a 0.99 USD file).
We need to fix the system that if a lawyer can be proven to have knowingly acted unethically they can be fined into bankruptcy and make them accessories to criminal acts if they are defended (see the James Hardie asbestos cases, the plan was to draw out the case long enough for most of the victims to die) so that the lawyers will also see the inside of a jail. Societies problem is that Lawyers get paid more then Engineers, we need to change this so that building things becomes more important then locking them down legally.
Consider the source, this information was published by the Daily Mail, one of Brittan's worst tabloids and are constantly in court over one libel case or another.
The Daily Mail published quotes from a BBC interview were out of context. So something does seem fishy but it's easier to vilify the scientists then to punish publishers when they deliberately publish misleading information.
There, fixed that for you.
The Daily Mail twisted the words of a scientist who was interviewed by The BBC when he said the rate of warming had decreased, not that temperatures had decreased.