bobsam
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Comment · 9 years ago
Nope, it was the NHS trying to get Tory to raise their budget...
PS. Speaking of crazy conspiracies, look up "UFO Obama" on YouTube for a good laugh.
Comment · 9 years ago
Nokia also had a number of proxy lawsuits against apple. Does anyone know if they were included in this settlement?
Comment · 9 years ago
I believe you are wrong regarding the new Nokia:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nokia/comments/6niivf/so_is_it_hmd_...
Comment · 9 years ago
Awesome work!
Also, You not working for Google just proves their headhunting and recruitment process is not worth shit
Comment · 9 years ago
You misunderstood my numbers :)
Search "chromebook boot time" on YouTube. Checkout the comparisons between a $200 chromebook from 2013 and a $2000 MBP...
Comment · 9 years ago
Edit: yes, but it depends very much on hardware. My old arm chromebook was very fast to boot but the Intel ones seem to boot slower:
Comment · 9 years ago
No, but it is still quite fast.
On chromeOS network bring up is extremely fast. We are talking 1-3 seconds from cold boot to your emails have been synchronized.
My Ubuntu is almost as fast, if we subtract the 4 seconds the ugly bios screen adds.
No idea about Android, but did you read the end of the article?
Comment · 9 years ago
This is obviously a work in progress, not a finished port.
I bet one month from now things will look much better.
Comment · 9 years ago
These guys were on the featured list and showcased in apple commercials before they were suddenly dropped.
I am not sure if this is "withdrawal of special treatment". These guys made great ios apps, both before and after they started making Android apps.
Comment · 9 years ago
My headphones are out of juice so you have settle for this summary:
> Coincidentally, Russell Ivanovic is a case in point for what could happen if you defy Apple and launch on Android first. Ivanovic had initially been very lucky to have been assigned an Apple Developer Relations representative who gave him exclusive promotional opportunities. Few developers get assigned these representatives. Among the benefits Ivanovic received was the privilege to have Shifty Jelly's apps preloaded on iPads in Apple stores in Australia, a major marketing boost.
> Things went south In 2012, when Ivanovic launched a new version of the Pocket Casts app on the Android Play Store first, rather than Apple's App Store. The launch was a real success, and he publicly shared the good news. Before he knew it, his Apple Developer Relations representative stopped all contact. The representative would not even answer his emails. Ivanovic had been completely shut out.
Source: http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/3/24/fear-of-apple
Comment · 9 years ago
Are you sure?
Comment · 9 years ago
I think @rustyshelf has removed the most salty posts, but the bulk of the story is still somewhere in their blog:
Comment · 9 years ago
Would love to see actual numbers my Android and PC OEMs receive to install bloatware.
I bet it's not even any substantial sums, just enough to get some beancounter to push for it.
Comment · 9 years ago
This is very useful for quick prototypes. 2k is no money for a company on a tight deadline.
At DIY level however there are already multiple open source projects doing this for a fraction of the price.
Comment · 9 years ago
> Or you aren't understanding the key statement of his comment
Sounds like it. People STOP referring to shattered.io, it is an entirely different issue.
Also, even if this was related... Can you really use shattered for MITM during key exchange which takes fraction of a second when that attack takes weeks of computation on a cluster of supercomputers??