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Technically Nexus devices have always been "at cost" to Google, since it's the OEM who gets the profit off the hardware sales in exchange for Google controlling the experience. So …

"Because the FRAND abuses originated by Motorola and supported by Google is some of the most disgraceful behaviour seen in the industry since the days of Rambus. You don't particip…

"What the hell? How is the PageRank patent not protection to Google?" Because it belongs to Stanford University, not Google.

The Android tablet ecosystem was stuck in a chicken/egg problem where nobody would develop for it until there was a market, and they'd be no market until there are tablet apps. A s…

Hard to feel sorry for "abuses" against the initial aggressors.

I think that was more down to 4.0.3 not being stable than anything else. Even the T-mobile Nexus S had that OTA pulled after 2 weeks, so made no sense to push it out to the 4G.

"Indeed. Google could have implemented it on iOS if they had wanted to, but that was a pretty big selling point for some people to get an Android phone over iOS." No they couldn't,…

But the "vanishingly few" are often the most significant features of a particular years iOS upgrade, whereas Google's 1st party apps are for the most part decoupled with the major …

It's pretty important to user satisfaction that Joe can say to Sally "You have an iPhone, right? Check out what they can do now!" And Sally be able to say "Mine does that too? Awes…

Yeah, I read it as the iOS/OS S style convergence. Different systems, but consistent UI/UX/feature implementations across the two.

The T-Mobile Nexus S you're referring to had its 4.0.3 OTA pulled within the same month it was released due to mass complaints with Android OS wakelocks/battery drain, instability …

Not really seeing why Gruber thinks Win8 "contracts" are "richer" than Android's intents/content providers. They're pretty much identical (though "contracts" has a much clearer nam…

Getting B&N to drop their very effective invalidity claims against MSFT's "license for linux" mystery patents couldn't have hurt either, and was probably the main motivator.

Well in the case of ICS, it's more accurate to say that Matias Duarte re-used his earlier ideas than "copied" from himself.

Looks like Google accidentally started two memes this month: #whitespace and #selectivelyquoteprivacypolicy

"create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services)" Seems reasonable eno…

Win8 contracts seem very similar to Android's "Intent" functionality.

ChromeOS/Chrome Web Store seems to be about countering the the trend towards "appification" (the consumption of the web through native clients) by turning the web itself into an ap…

> "Well my app just happens to run smaller on your huge screen" approach." Android has adequate methods of dealing with that (density independent pixels, Relative positioning/Box m…