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arron61 | 9 years ago | on: Problems with Android Studio

I personally like Android Studio better than dealing with Xcode and their project and storyboard files. I don't think Xcode is designed well for small to medium teams -- having to merge those files is a "gruesome embarrassment".

arron61 | 12 years ago | on: iOS7 is not about flat

You mean like using Android's SyncAdapter and setting inInexactRepeating()? Android has supported this basic type of background scheduling since the start of time. The main difference is that Android you can do more - which can be abused. And their solution for abuse is a battery monitor that allows you to see which app is using the most battery. In a way you can say Android is more superior/powerful or you can say that the iOS is more limiting and thus potentially more user friendly.

arron61 | 12 years ago | on: Nokia acquired by Microsoft

Google bought Motorola for 12.5 billion and then sold off it's Home division for 2.3 billion. At the time of the purchase, Motorola had 2 billion in cash so in the end, Google probably paid 8 billion ish for Motorola. Considering that in those 1.5 years, Moto and Nokia's values have been decreasing as well, I think they are pretty close in value.

arron61 | 12 years ago | on: Google Cancels Netflix Deal for Chromecast

Is he serious? Ending a promotion which was stated as limited early due to overwhelming demand equates to getting your shit together?

gruber needs to get his shit together and stop being a total biased ass.

arron61 | 13 years ago | on: Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands - Starting With Mine

Yes..this is exactly what I mean. If you don't want to be spammed from liking something, then don't allow the brands to reach out to users who liked their products. You can only do this with "follow."

By this definition, brands won't tell people to "like" their pages anymore, they will just say "follow" them. FB blurred the links and now no one knows what "like" or "follow" will do.

I can follow a brand and still not get all the information from that brand. This is ridiculous.

arron61 | 13 years ago | on: Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands - Starting With Mine

If you are constantly getting spammed by a fan page that you explicitly liked or followed, then the appropriate answer is to unlike or unfollow it. There's no reason to curate information that you wanted to get to begin with.

What if Twitter implemented something like this where certain tweets from a person you are following do not appear? How would that feel?

This strikes me totally as a money play and not for the user.

arron61 | 14 years ago | on: 700,000 Android devices activated each day

They don't sell the phones so they don't know how many are sold. The only count they have is all the activations that are coming from every new phone.

I don't think there can be a better measurement for them than this.

arron61 | 14 years ago | on: 700,000 Android devices activated each day

Andy Rubin: "...and for those wondering, we count each device only once (ie, we don't count re-sold devices), and "activations" means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service."

So it seems like a new device only.

arron61 | 14 years ago | on: “Greater Choice”

Great analyst? He's basically an apple PR personnel. Most of his posts van be summed up into Apple can do no wrong. Anyone opposing apple is wrong and stupid. There is no logic. It's blatant and it's almost like he does it for page views

arron61 | 14 years ago | on: Why the Mac App Sandbox makes me sad

Android does have sandboxing and its much better in than iOS. Each app runs in its own VM instance and requests for permissions. Additionally each app can also call other apps via intents. This allows for great sandboxing and reutilization.

arron61 | 14 years ago | on: Steve Jobs: “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product.”

R&D != patents. The number of patents generated by a company is really based on the system employed within the company and not about how innovative the company is. Most software patents are bogus and if your company is set up with a great system to file patents quickly then you will get a lot of them. For example in my company, your performance is based on how many patents are filed. Additionally they have an entire team of lawyers that take any one page description of text and turn them into patentable items. The team of lawyers write the patent, do the research on prior patents, and will then file the patent for us.

It's a great patent filing system and it generates A LOT of patents, but the company is definitely not innovative.

Most other companies that are less keen on such a system will not file these bogus and broad patents.

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