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2010-10-09
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Except they went and used a non-standard Java. Also, there is no sense in perpetuating the myth that these devices are somehow "special" and require toolkits that don't have implementations easily used on the desktop.
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2010-10-09
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#73
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If it was not clear, i dislike this activity as it removes some of the incentive for Google to fix its troubling requirements. In a way it becomes much the same response as the everpresent "just jailbreak" that pops up every time Apple pulls something user hostile on iphone.
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2010-10-09
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#74
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If it was not clear, i dislike this activity as it removes some of the incentive for Google to fix its troubling requirements. In a way it becomes much the same response as the everpresent "just jailbreak" that pops up every time Apple pulls something user hostile on iphone.
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2010-10-09
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Well, the Android App Market is a storefront more than a public repository. There are other competing marketplaces here and coming, repositories where users can download APK's, and websites that serve up their own. This free competition is what will really force the hand of the Google Marketplace specifications.
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2010-10-09
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Well google said tablet optimization is coming in Android 3.0. How is this Android market hack anything like Jailbreaking? Archos isn't preventing or discouraging anyone from hacking, nor are they restricting what applications you can or can't download. To a large extent they encourage hacking http://www.archos.com/products/ta/ar...try=us&lang=en
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2010-10-09
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While true, Google uses every chance it gets to parade their market as THE android market. There are even a boatload of software (free and payed alike) that is only available via said market (largely because of the forced mental connect between Google run market and android as a os).
As such, people expect said market to come installed with android. And even tech bloggers, that one expect to be more knowledgeable, gets tripped up over this time and time again.
Each time Google presents a upgraded android, they also talk about market improvements. But do they mention that the inclusion of said market is dependent on a very long list of conditions? Simply no.
Google is trying to use market access, and to a lesser degree their services apps, to put a leash on the runaway cat known as android. And these hacks allows them to get away with it rather then putting a spotlight on the root issue.
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2010-10-09
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Thing is, i can see Google having issue letting paid apps out there. They would risk a riot of returns, and bad press, if they did so. But why not put a "free only" market out there for anyone to use on any device that runs android? Or for that matter make the Google services apps more fine grained? This so that a device can get gmail and calendar even if it lacks compass and gps.
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2010-10-09
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#79
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2010-10-09
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While true, Google uses every chance it gets to parade their market as THE android market. There are even a boatload of software (free and payed alike) that is only available via said market (largely because of the forced mental connect between Google run market and android as a os).
As such, people expect said market to come installed with android. And even tech bloggers, that one expect to be more knowledgeable, gets tripped up over this time and time again.
Each time Google presents a upgraded android, they also talk about market improvements. But do they mention that the inclusion of said market is dependent on a very long list of conditions? Simply no.
Google is trying to use market access, and to a lesser degree their services apps, to put a leash on the runaway cat known as android. And these hacks allows them to get away with it rather then putting a spotlight on the root issue.
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