# 21 Oct 2011
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Disappointing closed-source Android 3.x line soon to be just an unpleasant memory
We plan to release the source for the recently-announced Ice Cream Sandwich soon, once it’s available on devices.
Better late than never.
# 04 Aug 2011
7 notes
Google Should Publicly Oppose Software Patents
Conspicuously missing here is any mention of patent reform. Congress is currently working on a patent overhaul called the America Invents Act. Google is one of the world’s largest and most prominent victims of our innovation-taxing patent system, so lobbying for better patent laws seems like an obvious way to fight back.
Constructive criticism, +1! (Or is that patented?)
# 03 Aug 2011
8 notes
“But Android’s success has yielded something else: a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.”
# 28 Jul 2011
18 notes
“We have noticed as well that the flagship ‘Books’ app has not implemented text selection, and by the images split across pages in landscape mode, we thought perhaps it is using a WebView as well? (Very pretty page turning though…) Help? :)”
# 13 Feb 2011
3 notes
“So the pattern’s been a big success, right? Users are familiar with it and developers have embraced it. So it was a little surprising to me to see that Twitter has now decided that the dashboard is not so good after all…”
# 05 Jan 2011
3 notes
Samsung’s Series 9, i5, 1366x768 (call me when it’s Ubuntu-tested)
# 16:00
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“The fascinating thing here is that there is already a Cambrian Explosion of new Android devices going on in China and India. You can buy iPad lookalikes, things that look like a huge iPod, TV-based video game systems and more that run Android, often for under $100.”
# 9:07
2 notes
“This, combined with a two-terabyte table of precomputed encryption keys (a so-called rainbow table), allows a cracking program to discover the secret key to the session’s encryption in about 20 seconds.”
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