MG Siegler:
First of all, yes, Chrome for Android is here. Second, it’s only compatible with Ice Cream Sandwich which is currently on — wait for it — 1% of Android devices.
Posts tagged Android
The unlucky 99 percent
Motorola sued by shareholder
MG Siegler:
But what’s crazy is that it’s from a Motorola shareholder who claims that the company did not get the best price possible.
Um. Was he holding out for $100 billion? Maybe an even trillion? Who the fuck was going to pay more than the insane amount Google just laid down for a dog with fleas?
Via ParisLemon
Rope-A-Dope
MG Siegler:
This all begs the question: over the past two years, would you have gained more knowledge by reading Lyons, or by having your head up your own ass?
Tough call, indeed.
Word of the day – Defending
J.K. Shin, President, Samsung, Mobile Communications Division
We welcome today’s news, which demonstrates Google’s deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem.
Bert Nordberg, President & CEO, Sony Ericsson
I welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.
Peter Chou, CEO, HTC Corp.
We welcome the news of today‘s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem.
Jong-Seok Park, Ph.D, President & CEO, LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company
We welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.
Reality: Google Wireless
Given Android’s phenomenal success, we are always looking for new ways to supercharge the Android ecosystem. That is why I am so excited today to announce that we have agreed to acquire Motorola.
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This acquisition will not change our commitment to run Android as an open platform. Motorola will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. We will run Motorola as a separate business. Many hardware partners have contributed to Android’s success and we look forward to continuing to work with all of them to deliver outstanding user experiences.
The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful, we didn’t have to do a second one. We would view that as positive but people criticised us heavily for that. I called up the board and said: ‘Ok, it worked. Congratulations – we’re stopping’.
Full announcement on the Official Google Blog
This all happened before
Daniel Eran Dilger:
Google’s Froyo was a bit like Microsoft’s Windows 95: the marked end of any pretense of respect for Apple’s original user interface intellectual property, and the shameless beginning of a wholesale rip-off of any and all intellectual property that might be between it and market dominance.
Full article at RoughlyDrafted Magazine
Do Java anyway
Andy Rubin
If Sun doesn’t want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language – or – 2) Do Java anyway and defend our decision, perhaps making enemies along the way
Florian Mueller:
Judge Alsup — the federal judge presiding over this litigation — attaches a great deal of importance to that particular document. At a recent hearing, he essentially said that a good trial lawyer would just need that document “and the Magna Carta” (arguably the origin of common law) to win this case on Oracle’s behalf and have Google found to infringe Oracle’s rights willfully. The judge told Google that “you are going to be on the losing end of this document” with “profound implications for a permanent injunction”. Let me add that a finding of willful infringement would not only make an injunction much more likely than otherwise. It can also result in a tripling of whatever damages will be awarded. […]
It’s certainly remarkable that those two emails show a consistent attitude: the Android team basically says “let’s just infringe” whenever an intellectual property issue comes up. If they did this to Oracle, what about the intellectual property of other companies like Apple, Microsoft, eBay and Skyhook?
Google used to be the “Do no evil” company. I guess stealing somebody’s IP is just that. You know, since patents are evil.
Full article on Florian Mueller’s site
Via Daring Fireball
MG Siegler on iPhone 4
MG Siegler:
The Mac vs. PC debate has often found people using a car analogy to explain things. I keep coming back to that when thinking about iPhone vs. Android. For a long time, iPhone felt like a Lexus while Android was more like a Kia. With recent upgrades, Android has transformed into more of a Honda. But with iPhone 4, the iPhone is now an Aston Martin (it was James Bond, remember).
But the crazy thing is that the iPhone is an Aston Martin with a Honda-price. Meanwhile, Android remains a Honda at a Honda-price — it’s a good deal, but it’s not an iPhone-deal.
Full article at Tech Crunch (via Daring Fireball)