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The endless parade of fragmentation discussions regarding Android all prove one thing: a lot of people don't understand what wins a market. Customers lacking in technological savvy make up the radical majority of Android owners, they are never going to care about this issue so long as their smart phone functions at 85% good enough.

85% good enough, is more than enough to win a market if you have substantial other advantages in your favor.

Windows has always suffered fragmentation, and has rarely been better than 85% good enough. Circa 2002 they had '95, 98, ME, and XP spread across over half a billion units. With further varied patch configurations and service packs. The total global varied combinations are in the hundreds in that context.

But, you say, that's just so horrible! Welcome to reality, where markets are never dominated by perfection and fairy tales. You don't have to like it, you can rail against it the rest of your life, and fight the good fight; and Android will continue to dominate, and it will have absolutely nothing to do with issues related to fragmentation.
Huh -- it certainly appears that the FBI had some advanced notice of the Stratfor hack.

I'd be a little irritated if my credit card number was released while the FBI sat back and watched it happen. I'd be a lot more than irritated if I owned Stratfor, and the FBI sat back and watched some people hack my business. (Yes, Stratfor's security was awful. But it's still a crime.)

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm curious -- why isn't the FBI liable for this sort of thing? Surely there has to be some precedent here one way or the other.
To everyone saying that now they will make you turn sideways i have to tell you that there are many blind spots even with those two angles, think about "corners" of yourself.

An example: http://imgur.com/Q1DTp (The rolled paper represents some sort of tube)

The point is that many angles are required (or another kind of "solution")
Android 2.2+ is not that bad, feature-wise. And with the release of several compatibility packages, it's rather easy to make app that run on more than 90% of the available Android devices.

APIs haven't changed that much from 2.2 to 4.0, for the design you can easily implement your own, and with the introduction of Fragments it's even easier to make apps that look good on both phones and tablets for Android than for iOS.

Yes, you can't negate that Android has a fragmentation problem, but it's not as bad as it used to be, or most people would like you to believe.
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I think by the end of the year this will be less of a problem. Consider that last year two OS versions were released and the first was Honeycomb which had a very binding legal agreement associated with it so as not to appear on phone form factor devices. Then Icecream Sandwich comes out and as usual most of the Android ecosystem does not see any of the codeline until the AOSP release. So now it's 3 months down the road.

In the biz. I haven't heard of any significant handset vendors starting a Android phone or tablet project in 2012 on anything but 4.0. So with the growth in the market expect 4.0 to grow very quickly and perhaps consider 2011 to be a oddity.
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I get your meaning but it doesn't have much weight without any evidence. Certainly Osama has lied, and is capable of lying. But we do not automatically question the stated motives of murderers and bombers without additional evidence. We do not second guess whether abortion clinic bombers are actually anti-abortion. We do not hypothesize what the real motives of the unabomber were, we take it on face value that he opposed the advance of industry and technology etc.

Similarly, we have no good cause to question Osama's stated motives. When an organization repeatedly makes clear their motives through public statements; when that organization undertakes combat operations at such great risk and cost that they employ suicide squads to carry them out and when those operations comport with their stated motives; and when their other activities also closely align with those statements why question those motives? The only reason is because someone has a political cause they wish to shore up by portraying a major political force like Al Qaeda as something it's not.

For what it's worth, Osama was right. The west has been a corrupting influence on the Arab and Muslim world, eroding traditional values such as misogyny, oppressive political and social institutions, stultifying economic systems, etc. For the most part I think this has been a good development, as I value individual liberty, education based on rationality and science, the spread of industrialization and broadbased wealth, etc. But such things are roadblocks to the creation of a new caliphate, or something much like it, in the Islamic world, which is the ultimate secondary goal of groups like Al Qaeda after they have managed to isolate the Islamic world from external influences.
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The Fox News reporting can be supplemented by the official FBI press release on the arrests:

http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2012/six-hackers-i...
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It's not any more captive than any other sort of market. If you live in LA and need a car, you're not going to not buy a car, right?

Corporations hire expensive lawyers for the same reason they get expensive architects to do their interior design. It's a signaling mechanism.
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I understand when this is done in a server, where you have control of how big your instance can be, but wouldn't that put too much memory pressure on the browser? What if the browser client is 32-bit? Even in Chrome where each page has a separate process one can make it go out of memory.
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Wow! Thanks for the new perspective! Very original and intriguing.
Tom, I was researching on the web about setting up a different, cookieless domain.

Should I use CNAME alias or direct A entries for those static0 ... static3 hostnames ?
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[edit] Not that I think that the global market for food to be a free market.
How are we supposed to believe that the same phone manufacturers will not have the same problems with fragmentation with 4.0, 4.1, 4.x in the future?
Money is the energy that both keeps the illegitimate operation going, and psychologically weds its victims to it. Without funding, most of TSA (etc) isn't going to show up to "work". Without funding, agencies that exist solely to perpetuate can no longer sustain themselves. Without funding, USG can't force it's myriad of extra-constitutional regulations upon the states. Furthermore, coming to terms with your taxes being nothing but an utter waste of your life lets one move on and condemn the entire system, rather than blaming this week's bad management (that whole fallacious gripe about 'taxpayer dollars' that conservatives are so hung up on).
It wouldn't be hard to get a profile view of airline passengers by having them spin or installing additional scanners. Not that I disagree with this guy.
This is a very interesting topic. It involves a crucial question about the impact of 'the company culture' in its success or failure. We usually hear that X company has X kind of culture, and the usual advise is something like 'setup the right culture or you will be dead'. However, when I hear 'monoculture' I cannot avoid imagining dystopic landscapes (as in Philip K. Dick's stories or Huxley's Brave New World). Because uniformity kills creativity and is counter-human. But usually, companies try to foster the right attitudes and key values towards work, what, I think, is radically different than a monoculture. In that aspect, the recruitment job is the main filter in order to avoid what you don't want in your company and set the 'right culture'. But also established processes, rules and etiquette set the company's 'culture', besides people's previous bagagge. In the worst scenario, you have no shared culture at all, which may impact in your performance, given the lack of tunning between different teams or within a team. That was my experience in one of the big names of the PC industry. The culture was some kind of random result of inherited practices, new hirings and a bit of wilderness due to the lack of real policies towards a positive culture. And I think this is in some way inherent to big companies, as it is very hard to reach every employee and it's also hard to find so many people that shares their core values (aside of their professional skills). So, in a few words, I just saw different subcultures struggling to make their point of view stand. Which sounds much like 'survival of the fittest'. Even though, I must say, I made there some really true and great friends.

I hope the answer contributes to the discussion.
A lot of the points made here are exactly why I'm going from an android device to an iPhone once my device cycle from Verizon is up later this year.

I'm so tired of hearing about all the new awesome things that are happening with the android operating system and not being able to get them. Even when my device (HTC Incredible) would support such features it's always a question of if HTC/Verizon is going to put in the effort to update the device because they have to update all of the modifications they have made on it. I feel that with android based devices, manufacturers and carriers just focus on the quantity of devices they produce not the quality of the service that is given. This is understandable because they have already made their money and they would rather sell you a new device than put in development time to upgrade your current device.

With an iOS device everyone gets the same updates at the same time as long as the hardware supports the software changes. You know the date you will get the update and you know the feature set you will have. This is because apple focuses on just a few devices and tries to make them really great. I think if HTC/Samsung/Motorola did the same with a stock android OS that got updated as soon as it was available from google they might have some of the same success.

For android to really succeed as a longterm platform I think google needs to crackdown and stop carriers from modifying the OS directly. If they want to "enhance" the OS with changes they should be downloaded in the form of applications when the phone is setup at the choice of the user.
Looks good. Having a set of geo-location icons would make it even better. In particular:

1) Request geo-location - this icon can be used on buttons that request the device/browser to activate geo-location.

2) Location on map - this icon can be used on buttons that display locations on map.
I think he was referring to the data manipulation capabilities of SQL, things like GROUP BY and WHERE and ORDER BY that can be offloaded to the client, not as a data caching benefit.
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> where are the apps to challenge iMovie, GarageBand, Keynote, OmniFocus

About GarageBand, there is a known problem with sound latency in android that prevents real time audio apps to be developed and it doesn't seem to be fixed in ICS.

This stops developers from writing musical apps that could compete with those available on iPhone or iPad.

iOS latency is around 6ms, in android devices it varies between 100ms and 400ms.
Once it has USB, Ethernet, and HDMI it is not your uncle's bare 8 bit micro-controller anymore. Yeah developers could sit and each write a different version of HDMI driver, but wouldn't be too much fun. One would expect there to be a nice SDK and libraries to access and make use of all those hardware features.
It seems it would be pretty easy to just 'rent' computers to do this. Even better if they are in the united states. It's essentially software that notices when you are idle and opens up Youtube videos, and other web media to inflate viewership.

Maybe you even share the profits with the computer owner.
Perhaps the official FBI press release on the arrests provides a supplement to the Ars Technica story, showing what is based on independent reporting and what comes straight from the release:

http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2012/six-hackers-i...
You want those imbeciles to have guns?

And what crimes happen in the vicinity of their screening area that could be prevented?
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Any chance of a Kindle/ebook version? It's already free online, but it might make for a bit more pleasant reading on a tablet/mobile device.
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Some of these issues are not immediately apparent but might be factors when you're buying your next device. Only time will tell.
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Things I would love to see are some form of "sorting" for:
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Originally (i.e. before that blog post on Mar 30, 2011), Dwolla said transactions were irreversible, both in their marketing and TOS. They knew ACH chargebacks are possible, but they must have either been planning to eat fraud losses (keep in mind they're charging less than 1% fees) or perhaps they thought their anti-fraud system could prevent fraud from happening in the first place.

Then Dwolla started getting hit with chargebacks from banks. Reminiscent of Madoff, Dwolla was faced with a choice between going out of business or breaking their own rules. People become very ethically flexible when survival is on the line. It's possible that their code and schema didn't even have the concept of reversing transactions. It's possible that they hand-edited their database to reverse transactions, which didn't leave proper audit trails.

Soon after that, they officially changed their TOS and stated that transactions would be reversible from then on. This shifted all risk from Dwolla to their customers, causing some Bitcoiners to immediately drop Dwolla. Others kept using Dwolla and got screwed later.
The issue with backups is understated. Titanium Backup is a crutch where I expect a cloud solution from Google would have been obvious and easy to use.
While I think the TSA is ridiculous, can't this be solved by having the people stand at 45 degrees to the left or right, chosen at random?
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There is no way those views are coming from Facebook, the traffic is too expensive based on the rates they are charging.

The view companies are just faking the refferer. This is a common technique in internet marketinn. I used to sell clients views services like that, and I've helped videos go viral by ordering from multiple sources and getting over 100,000 views in less than 72 hours, propelling the videos to the front page. This results in the videos actually getting real organic views way beyond what was "fake."
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Have to prioritize. Yes it's painful. I'd love to do all of them, but only have time for about one at a time, so pick the one with the highest value to you and focus on it.

Take comfort in the knowledge that now that they are going online, they'll still be there when you're ready for the next one.
It solves a problem very well, many would say a little too well. What happens is that once this problem is solved a little too well in that it does the following:

1. Provides no way of reversing transactions.

2. Has a large enough mass that the currency is trusted.

3. Has a large enough mass that non-nerds can easily use the system.

The feds come in and want to shut it down because it provides a great avenue for the criminal element and con-artists. eGold is the prime example of this.
If the only goal were market share then yes, Android is virtually guaranteed to dominate the market for the same reason Windows has been, and that would be a trump card in this conversation.

However, I don't really think the criticisms about Android fragmentation amount to nothing but beating around the "market share" bush. I think that, believe it or not, folks who are criticizing Android mean what they're saying. With all due respect to Groucho, sometimes a complaint that the Android platform's combination of failure to deliver software updates to existing users and lack of a decent wall around the garden raises serious security and privacy concerns is just a complaint that the Android platform's combination of failure to deliver software updates to existing users and lack of a decent wall around the garden raises serious security and privacy concerns.
> Circa 2002 they had '95, 98, ME, and XP spread across over half a billion units. With further varied patch configurations and service packs.

It's worth pointing out that this comparison isn't the same. You could, in 2002, run the latest version of Office on all of their operating systems. With Android, there are situations where even Google's own software (see Chrome on Android) only runs on the absolute latest version.

Further, in 2002, all the big name vendors were generally shipping Windows XP on their machines. With Android, vendors are still shipping devices with 2.3. It's still a good OS, but it has to be frustrating as a non-tech user to understand why your brand new Android device can't run software released last week.
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However, I would like to have seen a controlled experiment – i.e., with the same metallic case placed in a breast pocket. Trials with only that variable changed, and yielding a different result (presumably being pulled for patdown?) would more conclusively demonstrate the hypothesis that with the side-pocket technique "anyone can beat them with virtually no effort."
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There's an excellent line in the middle of the Android Support Visualization article he links to (http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphan...):

"In other words, Apple’s way of getting you to buy a new phone is to make you really happy with your current one, whereas apparently Android phone makers think they can get you to buy a new phone by making you really unhappy with your current one."

85% is good enough to have someone buy your crap, but it's not enough to make them loyal to your crap.
If you want a free resource for views that are semi-real, just use vagex.com it is basically a traffic exchange. You download a viewer and run it and generate credits which you can then use to purchase views for your video.
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It has nothing to do with giving credits. I (and I'm sure many others would also) like to read less tabloid-y and factual reporting anytime and so would prefer to read the story on Guardian than on Fox.
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