Personally, I think Google is doing the right thing here. If this secondary phone OS really does contain a lot of Android frameworks, as they claim, then I think Google is right to be upset about this.
If Google open sourced them, boo-hoo. If not they can sue Alibaba.
Android got a lot of benefit of the doubt for being open source, now they're changing their tune. Not good at all.
If Android runs 67% anti-trust isn't going to be happy at all, imagine if MS had threatened Samsung, Sony etc with the loss of any Windows licensing if they worked with Android. It's similar enough
My understanding, outside of corporate spin: Google is essentially preventing Acer and others that benefit from OHA to do any work with the likes of Amazon and Alibaba that use an Android fork. You work on any non-Google approved Android and you are frozen out of Android, even if they are different product. Do I understand this correctly?
First no one appointed you as a judge of "real books" or not, but he read FIVE books on a vacation. Four of them are related to today's world and highly relevant for us and especially for him
Dude, if Apple is liked and their brand loved even more, that $xxx million spent on solar there is nothing, even if it's declared a total loss. So, in theory, you can be a total capitalist and "waste money."
My point was not to assume that this makes sense economically just because Apple did it. They have other ways of getting their money back and if they lose, it's just a rounding error http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=AAPL&annual
As someone said, these are bright people and will probably make it, if not they can still go back to college.
But for 99.99% of "smart people," college is probably the best bet. Even if you had a few $million, that can go very easily over the course of decades with a few bad investment decisions, medical bills or whatever. A safe job usually provides a steady income for decades and decades.
Thiel is set for life and then some, but even if he loses the money he has a top college education to fall back on. So it's easy to make experiments with other people's lives.
Not necessarily, it could very well be a PR trick. Going solar is trendy so they may have done it to get some press.
It pays off but maybe in extra iPhone sales /brand building
Who cares why he made it? The internet is full of videos and posts mocking Jesus, Buddha and virtually every sect or religion or lack of religion out there. Also people mock fat people, skinny people, black, white, green and everyone in between. Do they have to blow something up to get attention from Google?
I understand that just because you can do it, you shouldn't do it, but Google is different, they did not make the film and their platform should be open to all but illegal stuff (child pppron for example).
I am upset that certain people call me an infidel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafir . Google should remove those videos that cal everyone else an unbeliever or else ;).
The estimated cost projections for the bullet train project keep getting bigger. I've seen estimates as high as $68 billion
Wait until it starts, it will at least double the initial projections. It sure makes you wonder if it's just payback to certain groups or spending to create (very expensive) jobs for a while.
Suffering from hypothermia?
Many are enterprise users, and this can mean a strike against Google Apps. Many of them stick with XP because it works great for their purpose and many applications only work with IE.
Like it or not, Microsoft wins a lot of points for supporting older versions for a decade plus. They might lose a few bucks on a new Windows license but make it back on reputation and other enterprise tools.
The carriers are also dying for a third major OS, but time will tell. Maybe the features Apple left out aren't as loved by common people as bloggers make them seem.
Personally I'd want better battery life (who wouldn't) but would not buy a phone for a stylus and 5.5 inch screen is too big for me.
Google needs to be harder on these manufacturers for the good of the consumers, the ecosystem, and ultimately the manufacturers as well. What will the "Android ecosystem" become if they create bigger and bigger incompatibilities and make developers jobs that much harder?
Devil's advocate: How has Kindle Fire hurt consumers? It hasn't but it has hurt Google. This is the same (minus the market share) like Microsoft saying to Samsung, Sony and Acer "Release Android phones and no Windows licenses for you" or something to that effect, considering the Google Apps /vs Android code.
If my guess is right and "Aliyun" is an Android fork, then cry me a river -- if Acer wants to sell an official Android device they shouldn't expect to make money selling gray market clones on the side.
Lots of speculation from all of us, but assuming that the story is true, you are wrong. First Google says that Android is open source and free to improve so what's the big deal?
Secondly, Google holds a large percentage of the-mobile market through the official Android so anti-trust is listening. A clear case of anti-competitive behavior since Google would not be able to control the non-official forks.
I think he is looking for the next Zuckenberg to say: "give me $50k and here's 25% [of the next Facebook]. What, we need to incorporate?" but YC has done the initial steps.
Looks pretty cool to me. As for specs some people love: I don't care much, provided everything works smoothly and seamlessly. (Fine tuning Apache and MySQL has saved me tons of cash by doing a lot more with the same hardware.)
If Google open sourced them, boo-hoo. If not they can sue Alibaba.
Android got a lot of benefit of the doubt for being open source, now they're changing their tune. Not good at all.
If Android runs 67% anti-trust isn't going to be happy at all, imagine if MS had threatened Samsung, Sony etc with the loss of any Windows licensing if they worked with Android. It's similar enough