Google To Merge Honeycomb and Gingerbread 158
eldavojohn writes "In Barcelona, Google's Eric Schmidt has been revealing future plans for Google, saying that the next release will merge smartphone and tablet versions of its mobile operating system Android. Aside from bragging about Android's growth, Schmidt tiptoed around a question of Google acquiring Twitter, instead offering the very nebulous statement that YouTube doubled its revenues last year."
I haven't had lunch (Score:1)
Can't they pick different codenames? Makin' me hungry.
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yum
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Stays crunchy in milk (Score:5, Funny)
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Wheat or white?
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Meaningless statement (Score:3)
So, was that $13 to $26 or $13,000,000,000 to $26,000,000,000?
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Re:Meaningless statement (Score:5, Informative)
Youtube doubled its revenues last year. Emphasis added.
The statement says nothing about profits, or profit margins; it's entirely possible to make a $1 billion profit one year, double your revenues the next year and suddenly be losing money. In Youtube's case it is probably a very good sign though, since no one really had any idea 5 years ago how to go about monetizing it.
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Nope, those come out of revenue and would give you a loss, or a negative profit if you like. It would not give you negative revenue.
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Nope, those come out of revenue and would give you a loss, or a negative profit if you like. It would not give you negative revenue.
Nope, those come out of expenses and would give you a loss, or a negative profit if you like. It would not give you negative revenue
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Yup, Said it better than I did.
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Youtube doubled its revenues last year
So, was that $13 to $26 or $13,000,000,000 to $26,000,000,000?
Double is double, so return to your toil and stop making trouble.
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Actually it's really important. Revenue isn't the same thing as profit. I might own a restaurant and observe that last year to this I doubled my revenue. I might very well still be going out of business because the revenue might still be insufficient to cover my costs. Which is the GP's point to an extent, doubling from $13 to $26 is doubling, even if it's less pocket change than all the employees put together possess.
Where's Gingerbread? (Score:5, Insightful)
No updates, no word from Google about why they aren't sending it out. Looks like things might be falling apart over there.
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Oh, your OEM declined to make it available to you? Too bad...
Re:Where's Gingerbread? (Score:4, Interesting)
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OP was referring to the Nexus One (Google's phone). Gingerbread hasn't OTAed to the Nexus One yet. In December they said it would be in a few weeks and it has turned into in a few months.
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You just explained why people are choosing not to code applications for Android.
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You could have fooled me [android.com]. There's no shortage of developers working on Android software.
If you want your app to run on everything from $120 Huawei Cricket phones to the Motorola Atrix, Android is your choice.
If you want your app to be on the most popular smartphone platform, Android is your choice.
If you decide to forgo being on the platform your customers use because you can't handle compatibility testing, then your customers will decide to become customers of another developer who is less lazy.
Writing sof
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I do not view Android developers as my competition, as $92 out of every $100 spent on mobile applications in 2010 was spent on the iOS family of devices. Why would I fight with a legion of other people for what amounts to a much more pitiful market full of people who are cheap and got the generic Android that their carrier tossed in "for free" when I can go for both a more numerous and affluent group of consumers, especially if I need to separately test for "an incredible range of devices?"
That's just sill
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Gingerbread is out and has been since December. It's the handset manufacturers that are slow about putting it out on the phones.
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which is why the Android model of open source is fundamentally broken, imho. But then it was never about the customer.
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No explanations, no apologies for the delay, just a bunch of hype last year that it was coming out and then silence.
You'd think a multi-billion dollar global corpo
Re:Where's Gingerbread? (Score:5, Insightful)
which is why the Android model of open source is fundamentally broken, imho. But then it was never about the customer.
This is such a stupid fucking argument.
"Oh my god they released in December and it takes months for manufacturers to port to their devices! Android is broken!"
You don't realize it, but this is the right way to do it. How would you expect it to work? Embedded development takes time, there's no way to avoid that. Even on full PCs there is a delay. Take Windows - they come out with new releases only once in many years, so they can easily delay the release 6 months to allow manufacturers to port their drivers - and thats what they do. Microsoft has a Release Candidate of windows ready many months before they "release", but no one complains about that. If google told us "Yup, the next version is done, so we're releasing to manufacturers and you'll see it in 6 months." people would get just as upset. And it wouldn't make sense to do - some people port faster and can use the new features sooner - so just release all the source and let the OEMs sort it out.
You could look at Ubuntu - it releases all at once to everything - but then, thats where computers differ from phones. Computers have enough extra space and resources that PC operating systems like Windows and Ubuntu just include drivers for every piece of hardware they can - windows has many hundreds of megabytes of *extra* stuff on the disk just to make sure whatever network card you happen to have will work. Phones don't have all that extra space. Computers are also all built with certain things being constant. Phones have to be highly optimized though, so everything about them varies. The notification lights are hooked up to different pins on the microcontroller, different features on a bluetooth chip are enabled depending on space requirements, etc. All the code for every component has to be ported to exactly how that device is laid out. So far NO ONE has come up with a good solution for building a mobile phone OS that can be universally upgraded without issue. Thats something google is trying to do with Android, but thats one hell of an undertaking. They say Gingerbread includes some features that will help, but dude, this stuff is all new, it takes time.
So chill out and think about what you say.
-Taylor
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I thought we were talking about updating existing hardware to a new release. In other words, the drivers are already written.
These operating systems are released in binary form for generic hardware. The process of building a release for a specific device ought to be much simpler. The hardware is known exactly in advan
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I have one word that discredits everything you just said: Apple
Re:Where's Gingerbread? (Score:5, Insightful)
which is why the Android model of open source is fundamentally broken, imho. But then it was never about the customer.
This is such a stupid fucking argument.
"Oh my god they released in December and it takes months for manufacturers to port to their devices! Android is broken!"
You don't realize it, but this is the right way to do it. How would you expect it to work?
Like iOS?
Apple says "oh hey new version of iOS is out and you can instantly get it for any iOS phone that's been out the past 2 or 3 years with a simple update"
Takes months for manufacturers, maybe, if they actually were trying. They could have been experimenting with the beta version of Gingerbread and have it working by the time it was officially released. Hell what about all those Android phones still on 2.1, or worse, 1.6?
Wow, you really don't get it. Apple tests iOS with every device they release it for, because, uh, there's only like 10 of them, and they created them all.
And actually, I checked and what you said isn't even fucking true. iOS 4 came out last summer for phones and ipod touches, but not until fall for iPads. And it wasn't compatible with anything made before the iPhone 3GS - so, half of the iPhone models got left behind. So you're full of shit.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/iphone-os-4-0-unveiled-shipping-this-summer/ [engadget.com]
And yes, the nice thing about apple controlling every piece of hardware is that they can release for many devices at once, but that's not how Android works and I hardly consider that broken. If you want to work with multiple manufacturers using open source code, you have to accept that not everyone will jump on a release immediately. I'd much rather have many manufacturers than one, so like I said, I hardly consider it broken.
-Taylor
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That's Ok. Android is a Trojan horse. Sure, right now the handset manufactures and cell phone companies drag their feet it getting things done, but eventually the tech will be so cheap that no one will be able to hold it hostage. Take a look at this phone:
http://thedroidguy.com/2011/01/ces-rewind-huawei-unveils-the-x-5/ [thedroidguy.com]
It runs stock android, is comparable to the nexus one, and sells for around $250 in the third world, unlocked. That combined with Google Voice means this is the last year you will need a cont
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The X-5 Comes with 2.2 however it wont be updated to 2.3.
So how exactly is this phone an example of easy/quick upgrades?
Even if Google Voice eliminates the need for a contract, it's still the OEMs that would stand to make more money from people buying a new phone unlocked rather than upgrading their existing one for free.
You're absolutely right. I was using that phone as an example of just how quickly unsubsidized Android phones will be changing the user/manufacture/carrier relationship. The main advantage carriers have over us is that we can't really afford these phones without a subsidy, and they won't give it to us without expensive plans. Breaking that link is the first step to real hardware/network independence. And you're right, that has nothing to do with software upgrades.
You are also right that OEM will benefit a l
Re:Where's Gingerbread? (Score:4, Insightful)
Gingerbread? 2.3?
It's released. [android.com]
Oh, do you mean, "Shouldn't they focus on pressuring Android phone manufacturers and network providers to release their own OTA updates to existing phones?"
Google don't play that.
May I recommend Cyanogenmod nightlies? I'm running CM7 Nightly 30 and it's rocking Android 2.3.2 flawlessly on my CDMA HTC Desire. If you're waiting for your network-providing gatekeeping overlords... well, I hope you enjoy waiting.
Re:Where's Gingerbread? (Score:4, Insightful)
Gingerbread? 2.3?
It's released. [android.com]
Oh, do you mean, "Shouldn't they focus on pressuring Android phone manufacturers and network providers to release their own OTA updates to existing phones?"
Google don't play that.
May I recommend Cyanogenmod nightlies? I'm running CM7 Nightly 30 and it's rocking Android 2.3.2 flawlessly on my CDMA HTC Desire. If you're waiting for your network-providing gatekeeping overlords... well, I hope you enjoy waiting.
Yeah, see I have a Nexus One, so I'm not sure how they would pressure themselves . . . ? And with no updates and no word on when it will happen, I figure something must be falling apart over there. Apparently these days, Google doesn't play much at all. But they do like to talk about how much they are doing.
I'll give it a few more days and then I'll go the cyanogenmod route. I was just being too lazy to want to deal with any quirks or bugs not worked out yet with the nightlies.
Re:Where's Gingerbread? (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, I saw that you replied to another poster about having a Nexus. My clever post and yours crossed in the mail, I guess.
Still, most Nexus Ones were HTC-made, so it's probable that Google doesn't have as much leverage as you might think.
I've had no problems with CM7, after rooting my Desire. Battery life is somewhat better than the stock Android 2.1 that came preloaded.
So, yeah, I'm fairly happy with the nightlies, but I'm looking forward to when the nice people at CM get a definitive 7.0 official release out there.
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Google is entirely responsible for the software on the N1 and NS, not the hardware manufacturers. Google uses these phones to develop the OS, so an update for these phones already exists before a new version is ever released to the public.
Re:Where's Gingerbread? (Score:4, Informative)
Still, most Nexus Ones were HTC-made, so it's probable that Google doesn't have as much leverage as you might think.
The whole point of Nexus One (and now also Nexus S), aside from being "officially rootable", is that they run stock Android with no modifications. HTC was only involved in putting the hardware together for Nexus One; they don't control its software, nor is their participation required in updating it. Not pushing that update is solely Google's fault.
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Interesting how Apple is also interested in selling more devices yet they still ship updates to their older phones.
That must piss off the networks but Apple can get away with it because of the limited number of models it has to support.
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Apple makes money because of the ecosystem involved. It is in their financial interest to keep older devices updated, because it means customers continue to buy from their App Store.
It is in Google's interest to keep providing updates as well for the same reason. However, the real sticks in the mud are the cellphone makers and the carriers. They hate the thought of upgrades because they don't make money from app stores, only from handset turnover.
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Well I still don't have it on my Nexus One, so its not an OEM issue. Of what I have heard, they are doing some changes so Gingerbread 2.3, will release 2.4 so Honeycomb dual core applications run on Gingerbread single core phones. Which is why most OEM are waiting for 2.4 as it takes effort to do their thing before they can release it. They don't want to release 2.3 and then 2.4 just to support apps from honeycomb.
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I guess you mean for the Nexus One?
Apparently they ran into problems, and have been fixing them. This was supposed to be done by January, but it got delayed, and rumours are that it should be out soon: http://phandroid.com/2011/02/16/nexus-one-getting-gingerbread-within-a-few-days [phandroid.com]
I'm also worried about this, as I just got a Nexus S exactly because I wanted to get updates on time, and the way they treat Nexus One now is a good indicator of how well they'll treat the Nexus S in ~1 year (at least, I hope :-)
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2.3 is Gingerbread
And 2.4 when its out will still be Gingerbread.
Re:Where's Gingerbread? (Score:5, Informative)
But it's only on the Nexus S. They were going to release it for the Nexus One and others, but those plans seem to be on hold. I'm using 2.3 on my N1 via the nightly Cyanogen builds but it's definitely got a bunch of quirks in it still. I'm betting Google is going to just release 2.4 as their next "standard" release that's widely distributed.
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I'm betting Google is going to just release 2.4 as their next "standard" release that's widely distributed.
Better hedge that bet.
Motorola Atrix coming in March will be 2.3 (actually 2.3.3 I believe).
Most of the dual-core phones coming out the first half of the year will be 2.3.3 because of it's better dual-core support.
2.4 (Ice Cream) is still a ways out from release, so most of the new phones will be 2.3 (Gingerbread) and new tablets will be 3.0 (Honeycomb).
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I think GP was referring to the fact that e.g. HTC has recently announced that they'll be going straight for 2.4 for their existing pre-2.3 phones.
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Right.... CM7 is quirky on N1, what makes you think Google's version is any better if they even have one?
I doubt Google is sitting on a stable 2.3 update for N1.
While I say that... I'd bet there are exclusivity deals between Samsung and Google regarding updates, but those time periods can be used to polish and fix bugs anyway.
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Google has the proper driver versions, while CM7 does not.
Re:Where's Gingerbread? (Score:4, Insightful)
But it's only on the Nexus S. They were going to release it for the Nexus One and others, but those plans seem to be on hold. I'm using 2.3 on my N1 via the nightly Cyanogen builds but it's definitely got a bunch of quirks in it still. I'm betting Google is going to just release 2.4 as their next "standard" release that's widely distributed.
While I also am using CM7 on my N1 and wish Google would release a damn stable version already, I imagine they're pretty busy. I'd *much* rather they spend all of their energy on making Honeycomb kick ass than releasing Gingerbread for more phones. Gingerbread is a nice update, but Honeycomb tablets will be shipping soon (supposedly) and they really want to ship them with the best possible software they can. Not only am I much more interested in a honeycomb tablet than stable Gingerbread on my phone, I also want regular people to choose honeycomb over the ipad.
Also, the Nexus one (and maybe the older dev phones) and the only ones google has any ability to "release" updates for. For the rest of the phones out there, its up to the manufacturer. Clearly cyanogen/koush et al have been working their asses off and they aren't done, I don't see any reason why the manufacturers would be any farther.
-Taylor
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This isn't really Google's fault. I'm sure that most of the devices out on the market that hardware wise could easily support 2.4 will never receive an official update to it, other than Google's, and at best, the ROM makers will have to kexec in the new functionality, assuming there isn't a mechanism that prevents that from happening.
It is sad these days, but the only Android phones worth buying are the ones from Google due to signed kernels, e-fuses, and other crap.
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This isn't really Google's fault.
How is it not Google's fault that Nexus One - a phone with Google branding that was sold by Google and touted as the device to buy if you want it to remain up-to-date with respect to Android releases - still doesn't have 2.3, months after it is available on Nexus S?
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Oh... two months to release a major upheaval in system updates, you poor baby.
What's major in 2.3 compared to 2.2?
Meanwhile, Microsoft is pushing on 4+ months or something for WP7 to release the first minor update allowing copy&paste.
It's just as annoying, but it's not a minor update (it's not just about copy&paste - it's just that this is the single most obvious missing feature, which is why it's always mentioned first).
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Please correct to: "of its mobile operating system Android."
I just feel sad when a website EDITORS disregard the correctness of their mother tongue.
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English is a stupid language full of exceptions. It took me years to get the apostrophe out of, "its," when used possessively. If we referred to it as, "Google's mobile operating system," it'd be correct. When we use the pronoun we remove the apostrophe while it's possessive, because, "it's," is already a contraction of, "it is."
We native speakers get it wrong because English—in spite of its advantages—is a language chock full of weird rules that always have exceptions. Not that it's an excuse f
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At least we don't have to deal with things like "der" "die" and "das". And many languages have dialects that are so different that they almost should be separate languages.
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Even Esperanto hasn't escaped from this arbitrary cruft---the "-in-" bullshit, and why does "brusxi" become "brusxo" while "kombi" becomes "kombilo"? If you can't keep that stuff out of a constructed language, could you hav
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Nobody else (maybe except Austrians) understands Bavarians. For many Germans it is actually often easier to understand Dutch than Bavarian dialects.
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Forget the Bavarians, try talking to a northerner one time.
Wir kÃnnen alles ausser Hochdeutsch.
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At least those have nice clear rules and are fairly portable across languages. English has dialects so far apart they are not easily understood by other native speakers. I once offended a Dell support person when I asked to be transferred to someone with better English and he informed me he was in the Southern US and a native. An Indian would have been far easier to understand.
Just cousin youins chain't unner stand usen ifin yawl ain't from round heruh ain't usein's fahwlt.
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I once offended a Dell support person when I asked to be transferred to someone with better English and he informed me he was in the Southern US and a native. An Indian would have been far easier to understand.
Sounds like an issue with accent rather than language.
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...because, "it's," is already a contraction of, "it is."
Not "because". Otherwise we'd have trouble disambiguating "Google's" (possessive) and "Google's" (for Google is). Just admit the rule is arbitrary.
...in spite of its advantages...
These kinds of statements always bother me. English's advantages have nothing to do with its grammar, syntax or lexicon. It's the de facto lingua franca for science and business right now, but the fashionable language changes every couple of centuries or so, and for reasons that have nothing to do with anything inherent in the language.
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The english language is the french language, got it. :)
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Although something like 75% of the English lexicon comes from French, and even a bit of our syntax.
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English is a stupid language full of exceptions. It took me years to get the apostrophe out of, "its," when used possessively. If we referred to it as, "Google's mobile operating system," it'd be correct. When we use the pronoun we remove the apostrophe while it's possessive, because, "it's," is already a contraction of, "it is."
Ummmm. Actually we don't 'remove the apostrophe' its is the third person gender neutral possessive pronoun like 'his'..... it's its own word.
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"it's" is a contraction of "it is" all the time.
"its", however, means that the subject belongs to the referred object, so to speak.
Generally speaking, all languages are full of weird rules, exceptions and so on. This ain't an excuse, it's (NOT "its") a fact and we have to live with it, because all native languages are organic and have a varying degree of randomness. But if we can't be arsed to learn the mother language properly... well I just think it's kind of sad.
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"it's" is a contraction of "it is" all the time.
Except when it's "it has".
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"it's" is a contraction of "it is" all the time.
Except when it's "it has".
I can't think of an example where using it's would fit in place of it has.
Wow...really? It's been raining here lately.
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There are many silly things in English (just as there are in most natural languages, to be honest), but "its" vs "it's" is not one of them - it's entirely logical and consistent, and easy to distinguish if you understand the difference between the two. I'm actually surprised at how many native English speakers get it wrong repeatedly - in my experience, foreign speakers seem to have a better grasp of it, especially among young people. Perhaps it is because in other languages, the same two concepts are rende
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New version every 6 months... (Score:3, Insightful)
Consumers don't care about Google's promise of Android updates unless they actually reach the customers.
Developers don't care about Google's promise of Android updates for the same reason... unless those updates reach customers developers wanting to target that huge android base need to target the lowest common denominator.
http://designdare.com/how-to-buy-an-iphone-at-the-worst-possible-ti [designdare.com]
Re:New version every 6 months... (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, this whole fragmentation thing is just killing us Android dev's right???
Or not: http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html [android.com]
90% of all users that connect to the Market are now on Android 2.1 or greater. Android 2.2 and 2.3 haven't brought any kind of huge API changes that require you lock out 2.1 users to get some awesome new feature. The new "big thing" is going to be the Fragments API and it will support all the way back to Android 1.6.
Now, don't get me wrong. I want everyone that can be to be on 2.3 yesterday, but it isn't exactly a big deal.
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The main irritation I have with the delays is that there's still functionality in my Nexus One that Google hasn't unlocked.
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Far from it. 2.2 brings the JIT compiler which offers some great performance boosts. This doesn't affect dev's in a feature sense, but faster phones are faster phones. 2.3 really only brought NFC to the API and right now, that doesn't do much for us. It did bring some new basic UI elements that look really nice, but again...that doesn't change my code or lock out 2.1 users.
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Consumers don't care about updates.
Most people get a phone - smartphone included - and use it. They don't particularly care about different OS versions, follow release announcements or read blogs that obsessively list the changelogs from minor update to minor update. They get their Samsung or HTC or Xperia and use it. If an update comes their way it's something between a delightful surprise and an unwelcome source of anxiety.
Ask most Android or iOS users and they'll have no idea what version they use. They
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When a new OS comes out, updates do matter because they solve significant bugs or add significant functionality. As the OS matures, updates become less and less important.
The update from 2.1 to 2.2 does have some importance to non-geeks because 2.2 has flash support. Even as a geek I'm not sure what 2.3 will buy me if anything, which indicates (at least to me) that we may be getting up on the mature end of the curve.
Not to name any names -- SAMSUNG -- but the update to 2.2 is important. After that,
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The levels of these phones, both Android and iOS, and still pretty new, and therefore lack a lot of desired functionality when compared to computers, Android just recently acquired Flash capability, iOS still hasn't. That's a large part of the internet that isn't available.
With all the publicity around the phone and tablet releases, people are paying much more attention to OS releases, and feature upgrades. Comments such as "the new iPhone is coming out, but I just got mine 6 mo
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"Consumers don't care about Google's promise of Android updates..."
Period.
Consumers don't care. A small group of nerds care. But the big majority don't give a crap. They bought a phone based someone they needed (facebook, twitter, music whatever) - and they are happy with it.
They don't check for updates every 30 seconds. Nor do they keep replacing the phone.
They keep it and use it for a long time and are happy with what they have. If there suddenly is an update that is an unexpected surprise - they have no
Twitter acquisition (Score:3)
Great... big scary companies that can't earn our trust force us to "sign up" by purchasing their replacements that we did trust. First it was USA banks getting gobbled up, and our diversity perks disappearing after the acquisition. Now, big web companies either create "sign into Yahoo with your Facebook ID" kind of mergers. TFA mentions the twitter question "dodge" very shortly, but to me it counts as guiltily "pleading the fifth"*. When they acquire twitter, they can get data on my habits that I chose NOT to give up when everybody opted-OUT of joining Google BUZZ exactly 12 months ago.
Youtube refused to let me in with my 4-year old YOUTUBE username to view a video yesterday... apparently they don't care; they want me to sign in with a Google address. Nothing is stopping me from faking data and so on, but nothing will fool their geolocation tracking and their silently associating my video playlists with the content of those emails I receive. Twitter data would provide my outing habits and random data to mine. Eventually it will be a giant single company out there with access to everything, and in the end, we'll have nobody left to trust.
* amendment of the USA constitution against self-incrimination
I shall try to do the same. (Score:2)
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Clearly some sort of gingerbread cookie coated in honey
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That's where you're wrong. It's more likely some sort of gingerbread house made out of honeycomb cereal.
Sheeze. Don't you know anything about technology?
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Developers who would rather write to one target slightly fragmented target than to two significantly fragmented targets?
OT Question (Score:5, Interesting)
The new comments system... is it supposed to be hiding responses to low rated comments? Take this one for example, it will start out life rated at 2 (including the karma bonus) but won't be visible on the page unless you have set filtering to -1 because the GP is rated at -1. This seems extremely broken to me.
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The new comments system... is it supposed to be hiding responses to low rated comments? Take this one for example, it will start out life rated at 2 (including the karma bonus) but won't be visible on the page unless you have set filtering to -1 because the GP is rated at -1. This seems extremely broken to me.
My problem is that you have replied to a -1 post without quoting any of it and expect your voice to be heard over what you are responding to. This is bad, for you and everyone, because it ends up with a bunch of wasted competing up/down mods due to confusing/misleading/lack of context. It also, naturally, pisses off non-moderators reading it.
They can't make you quote stuff, but they can hide you behind hidden posts, where you wouldn't make any sense showing through anyway.
(Or they could treat the post hie
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How do you get to the options to do this? Ever since the change, when I click on the Options link at the topp, the page flashes grey, then nothing happens. I had written user CSS that reverted D2 to it's old style, but the last tweak to the site broke it, and I'm tired of fighting with it.
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Wrong option. You need to click on "Account". If the Ajax continues to get in the way, right click on Account and select "Open in New Tab" or "Open in New Window".
I'll miss inline expansion and commenting, but by dammit that new style was beginning to piss me off.
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I guess you give enough of one to post a reply, eh?
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I just think that it's ironic that Chrome OS is less useful than Android.
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ChromeOS will likely get folded into Android proper after the Google TV source (minus the Google-specific apps of course) is finally released.
The OS of Google TV is Android, but Google claims the browser is actually just the standard Linux Chrome with some UI tweaks to blend in as a coherent whole. If that is true, as I suspect it is, much of the ChromeOS code can be folded in, where and as applicable.
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I expect it'll be called Cutie Honey [wikipedia.org], after the ginger.
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it stays crunchy, even in milk
No you fool. We're nowhere near that erudite. It's from a stupid breakfast cereal [capncrunch.com],
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I was thinking something along the same lines today. Offer a smaller 7" iPad. Larger and smaller iPhones. iPhones with slide-out keyboards. I know it's not trivial to shrink a 10" iPad to a 7" or add a keyboard, but it's a one-time engineering deal. Otherwise you instantly lose out on the 7" market or phone with keyboard market. I know I'm not the first to think/wish along these lines. Apple will be Apple, though... who knows why they do (or don't do) certain things.
-John