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Quote: Originally Posted by Buckeye in Fla There is a totally open way to put a program on an iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with Apple's blessing but without the "restrictions." They are called web apps. Web apps are a good way to side-step Ap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro Case. Closed. Hardly. I believe your first image is from a prototype Android device. This is a screenshot of Android 1.5's soft keyboard: You can see that it's very similar to the iOS keyboard. You…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro Please don't feed the troll. The bolded passage in the first paragraph is the "I'm really a troll" statement. What a telling response. He raised some serious questions about the concentration of power and cont…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Curmudgeon That?s OK, because Android is open. Cliq XT owners can just type ?mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make? and they?ll be all set. P…
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Quote: Originally Posted by FreeRange When are you clueless people going to stop calling Android "open" - it is FAR from being an open source platform. You might want to have a look at http://source.android.com/ The source is available under a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse 1. As others have pointed out, the open/closed thing is pretty much a load of bullshit in this context. The human capacity for self deception never ceases to amaze me. I'm dumbfounded at some of the comme…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Stourque Apparently you never took statistics in school or you would know about sampling. Just because you weren't polled does not make the sample size invalid. Likewise, is 700 people a meaningful sample? Were ther…
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Quote: Originally Posted by White Rabbit Wow I'm impressed, you can have several keyboards on an android phone. A flimsy plastic one, and the virtual one, which by the way android copied from Apple, if IOS is crap as you imply, why does android h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sflocal You're right... Not open for attack and being compromised! What are you talking about? Apple routinely patches dozens of security bugs in early iOS release. For example, here are all of the security patch…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jensonb I dunno about you other iPhone users, but when I see my BlackBerry-Wielding friends using those keyboards, my brain splits in two. I can't comprehend using such a cramped, fiddly keyboard with such an uncomfort…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell If you use one of the many phones that wasn't created by Apple, then you are correct they have no right to dictate what you do with it. Why should they have the right to do that at all? If I buy a Samsung l…
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Why am I not surprised that (brain) DED is defending Apple here? What right does Apple have to tell me what apps I can or can't run on my own phone? What right does Apple have to tell me that I can't buy DRMed music from anyone other than Apple? Wha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Realistic Why should Apple allow Sony's app if it allows someone to buy content direct from Sony's store without Apple being paid anything? Apple was paid something -- they were paid when the user purchased the iDev…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro Um yeah. I''l take that comment as evidence I've hit a nerve. No, not a nerve. You're just annoying, frustrating, and pathetic. Can you point to a statement by the Tweetdeck developers discussing per-platfo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro And how many special case HW/SW pair specific statements switches are in there? At least 100+ and growing. You have zero evidence of this. It's pure speculation. Did the Tweetdeck dev's ever say that they had…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro Go ahead and say it for the third time. Make yourself believe. The Party would love your blind acceptance of doublespeak. You really are crazy. The Tweetdeck for Android app runs on any device with 1.6 or highe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro We can lead them to water, but we cannot make them drink. http://blog.tweetdeck.com/android-ecosystem Your reading comprehension skills are seriously lacking. From the article you linked to: "what migh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro You go right on believing both of those. You completely missed the boat on the first. Words saying "no problem", followed by an explanation of why development took linger than expected with over 149 HW/SW pairs …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro Lets see. Maybe TweetDeck. Huh? The Tweetdeck developers specifically said that developing for Android wasn't a problem : http://www.businessinsider.com/tweet...e-jobs-2010-10. Quote: Originally Posted by …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism it?s almost like two people using the same account but not coordinating their comments. Ummm.... what? There's nothing contradictory about those statements.