To get to China from Washington DC, Google tells you to kayak across the Pacific Ocean
To get to China from Washington DC, Google tells you to kayak across the Pacific Ocean
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How Google’s Andy Rubin defines open. If that is indeed Andy Rubin’s Twitter account. For context, see this transcript of Steve Jobs’ tirade on Google and RIM from Apple’s Q4 financial conference call.
To Apple and Jobs, Android vs iOS isn’t about open vs closed it’s about fragmentation vs integration.
Apple takes 48% of smartphone industry profits
Apple may be shipping less than 5 percent of the world’s mobile phones and “only” 14 percent of worldwide smartphones but according to a research by Asymco, it managed to grab almost half of the entire industry’s profit share.
While Android fans are cheering the massive rise of their platform through multiple vendors and models, Apple quietly moves towards enlarging its bank account with what is essentially one phone.
HTC isn’t included since their numbers aren’t as comprehensively available as the other manufacturers’.
Market share vs profit. Pick one.
About the lack of paid apps in the Android Market
You can buy Android apps from the Android Market in only 13 out of 46 countries and you can only develop paid apps in 9 countries.
Of course there are third party Android app stores but who knows about them? Do they advertise? Are they being promoted to potential Android buyers? How do operators fit in to this equation?
Google is an advertising company. Android’s existence is a vehicle to deliver ads in the mobile space. Having
a large library of universally accessible paid apps is counter to Google’s reason to have Android.
It’s time for the baked-in Android UI to die
This is why I’m not too fond of customized Android interface. Many phone manufacturers insist on having their own “optimized” interfaces according to their perceived need of their intended customers. This whole forcing people to use their custom interface meme flies in the face of the whole idea of openness that Google claims to champion. Or perhaps it’s open but from the vendor’s perspective, not the user’s.
Welcome to the new decade: Java is a restricted platform, Google is evil, Apple is a monopoly and Microsoft are the underdogs
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Movie Times
Simple web app to find movie theaters and schedules near your area based on data from Google Movies. Unfortunately Indonesia isn’t supported yet, the data’s simply not available on Google. Singapore is though.
Google pulls apps too
Just as some people are up in arms about Apple pulling Camera+ from the App Store, the Cupertino company isn’t the only one with that prerogative. Google recently pulled EasyRoot from the Android Market because Verizon complained it allows Verizon Droid phones’ owners to circumvent Verizon’s hotspot policy even though it’s not a function of the app.
Rooting an Android phone is the same as jailbreaking an iOS device. It lets you access and enable functions not made available by the vendor. In Verizon’s case, rooting the Droids will let the owners share their phones’ internet connections via wifi freely, something that Verizon charges money for, despite the feature being standard on Android 2.2.
Just like Apple’s App Store, Google’s Android Market has policies. Any app that violates those policies or receives complaints from significant enough parties will be removed.
Sean Kovacs » Google plans on charging for Google Voice?
Nice discovery from the developer of GV Mobile, the Google Voice iPhone app that Apple bizarrely kicked out of the App Store.
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