As a software engineer, I am not surprised at all.
They know what they need to do - hello iPhone. They have a young, fresh code base without a lot of legacy issues. They have good programmers. All that means that Android is well positioned to kick some serious butt.
WinMo, Symbian, and even BB are all hopeless comparatively, they have a huge legacy code base that acts like a ball and chains. The best coders can't change this.
Word of a new release leaks. Google's Android engineers start posting on some blog fan pages. TONS of new features suddenly appear -- Multitouch, search gestures, built-in VPN.
And, no sign anywhere of a legal statement saying their lawyers require they charge for all of this. Why? Because the whole damn thing is FREE!
@PhineasJW: Um....Shocker? If you're meaning to imply that Apple has ever charged PHONE users for an update, you're categorically wrong. Phone != music player
@TheSonOfKrypton:Oh, so original iPhone buyers can record video without having spent any money to upgrade anything? Good to hear that Apple is just as friendly as Google then.
@freakout: I'm sure they had plans to implement multitouch long before the Pre. The hardware was always capable and underlying code base was there from the beginning. The only thing Apple patented was one Method to do it. Everyone else simply found another method.
@dallasmay2: Actually, Apple have a metric fuckton of multitouch patents, due to their acquisition of Fingerworks. And Steve made a big show of this at the first iPhone keynote. Remember "And boy, have we patented it"?
The fact that the code was there from the beginning and that it just wasn't turned on speaks volumes. Google, for some bizarre reason, was afraid of Apple. Not anymore, it seems.
@joule79: Plenty of people complained. Thats why the XDA community put it in pretty quickly.
There was always some question about multitouch and other phones. It was even more pronounced with the G1 since there are obvious apple/google ties. There was some suggestion that google wasn't as concerned about copyright infringement as they were jeopardizing their work with apple.
So... does one choose the underpowered Hero and SenseUI, which is beautiful as hell but missing these new features, or wait for the next 'official' Google handset to drop, with the universal search goodness and full OS multitouch... but no SenseUI?
Dreams come from the issues our subconscious can not, will not or have not dealt with during our conscious state. Dreams have also been recognized as holy or prophetic throught history and by many religions, so we are talking about some VERY powerful stuff. I believe things that powerful should be left alone to do what they were intended to do. If you were meant to remember them, you would. For those of you who want to explore the symbols in your dreams (yes, even pickles) here is an excellent site. [www.dreammoods.com]
This would lead to massive therapy bills to the people who have to watch the dreams.
Like the one where I see myself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at me.
Well I'd love to have had this a year ago; I had some dreams, and what I can remember from them started happening a month later... It'd be a heck of a lot easier to sketch someone's portrait this way too. :P
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They know what they need to do - hello iPhone. They have a young, fresh code base without a lot of legacy issues. They have good programmers. All that means that Android is well positioned to kick some serious butt.
WinMo, Symbian, and even BB are all hopeless comparatively, they have a huge legacy code base that acts like a ball and chains. The best coders can't change this.
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And, no sign anywhere of a legal statement saying their lawyers require they charge for all of this. Why? Because the whole damn thing is FREE!
Imagine that!
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The fact that the code was there from the beginning and that it just wasn't turned on speaks volumes. Google, for some bizarre reason, was afraid of Apple. Not anymore, it seems.
http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/02/09/apple-asked-google-not-to-use-multi-touc.../
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why did they name their OS versions after tasty patisserie items?
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There was always some question about multitouch and other phones. It was even more pronounced with the G1 since there are obvious apple/google ties. There was some suggestion that google wasn't as concerned about copyright infringement as they were jeopardizing their work with apple.
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Choices, choices...
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For those of you who want to explore the symbols in your dreams (yes, even pickles) here is an excellent site. [www.dreammoods.com]
12/11/08
Any other application is scary and questionable and will likely reveal the identity of Batman.
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Like the one where I see myself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at me.
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It'd be a heck of a lot easier to sketch someone's portrait this way too. :P
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Who wouldn't want to see the two girls one donkey scene I dream about last night?
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And the Sexy Stud?
I'm repulsed but I can't...look....away.
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