Posts by auxio

Quote: Originally Posted by KDarling  "Open" also means that anyone can modify the source to differentiate their own device (say, by making it faster, or by adding a proprietary extension for air...

Quote: Originally Posted by nht    Except this isn't true since they used the OHA bludgeon against the handset that Acer built for Alibaba.  Given the mention of Baidu and Alibaba this is a direct...

Quote: Originally Posted by Techstalker  Chinese goverment is mad because it doesnt have a backdoor to android to bend over the Chinese people out of its information. ANDROID IS TOO BIG FOR THEM TO CONTROL. So there mad....

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    Sweet mother of frick, this phrase has now been said in actual seriousness. What moron wants a SIX INCH PHONE?!   Perhaps to make up for something else?

Quote: Originally Posted by SockRolid  In some ways, Tizen is like Android with Google's profit layer stripped out. Samsung is supposedly considering Tizen as an alternative to Android as well.  Makes...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jetz  Google certainly dominates Android. But there is absolutely nothing stopping companies from forking Android. Amazon had demonstrated this quite aptly. Google simply says you can't go...

Quote: Originally Posted by MacRulez  Does Google have more control over Android that Apple does over iOS?   The real difference is that Apple has never pretended that iOS is 'open' (in the sense that...

You mean they don't believe that Google does no evil?

Quote: Originally Posted by LarryA  Ooh, i really feel the burn on that one! Doesn't make it any less true that the obstacle to switching named by the article is the same whether going to an iPhone 5 or this phone....

Quote: Originally Posted by LarryA  "The manufacturer will have a harder time, though, getting iPhone users to abandon the accessory ecosystem, in which some may have invested hundreds — even thousands — of...