Posts by Mikeb85

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil  Why sideload it? Oh yeah, that's right; who the FRICK wants to do that EVER?   Developers, people who want software that's not available on Google Play (like...

Bad move by Apple.  This will discourage developers, the prospect of someone else having 100% control over your revenue stream is a scary one...

Quote: Originally Posted by jd_in_sb  Sadly all decisions in favor of Apple are overturned eventually.   Because most of the patents are silly.     Translucent images and text selection......

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX  The tweet didn't state it was an April Fools joke. If that's the case then I like it. I just assumed that was some guady hipster "ironic" choice to make the car as "cool" as...

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX  After seeing this I take back what I said about not hating a company: https://twitter.com/rmac18/status/320197445306953728   Dunno, that's a pretty sweet April fools...

Quote: Originally Posted by jazzguru  Comparing Apple's competitors to the Axis powers in WWII is a bit over the top, don't you think? Kind of in line with what I expect from this forum.     Reinforces...

I doubt most of those users care...

Quote: Originally Posted by Darryn Lowe  It says something when a large company like Opera who is a major developer of the HTML5 standard has ditched their own rendering engine in favour of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Stef  Fair enough: Amazon and Facebook and Samsung will all stick forks in Android; Google does it to Webkit. But Google is an honorable co and so it will be open ... no matter...

Also, these conspiracies about Google wanting to 'control' the web are silly.  Google has released more open source projects than any corporation of it's size that I'm aware of, and has consistently pushed open source solutions...