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Fair enough. I'm a huge fan of Google Now so hopefully I can continue to use it if I decide to switch to a custom launcher.

>4.4 has now a new closed source launcher Not correct. Launcher3 is open source.

Arstechnia hasn't done enough research. You can (and I have) fetch the new Launcher from AOSP, compile it and run it very easily as a separate application. The Google Experience La…

Yep, that is definitely leg up for iCloud I hadn't considered. Developers can write their own sync adapters on Android, but they would need to run their own servers (or find storag…

Google has nothing to do with this topic, but for what it is worth Android syncs all (if not almost all) Google related data from Android devices. If you have a Picasa account Andr…

>Still, I don't have experience with iOS devices, but my Nexus S tends to be so laggy at times that apps crash frequently. This sounds more like poorly written apps than an issue f…

>Funny how that works How what works? I see just as many "Android phones do this naughtiness" headlines as I see "iPhones allow these shenanigans" headlines. The fact that is isn't…

Looks like he is amazed at the performance improvements, not the just fact that it works.

1. There are bang's for lots of sites, http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html (e.g. !amazon bags isn't really for developers). You can now refute this with your "easy for [insert competit…

>Duck Duck Go doesn’t do anything significantly different Further to this, Duck Duck Go is targeting people who don't want to be bubbled and tracked, which is completely different …

From what i can see there is no pressure being put on Google from gpl-violations.org (presumably because the haven't made any violations). Plenty of heat being put on manufacturers…

I'm not sure why any developer would need access to source code with such a well documented SDK. Lots of hackers would like the source so they can poach the some code, make a few e…

The code we are talking about is under an Apache 2.0 licence, they didn't have to release anything. "open-source citizen" is in the eye of the beholder, if you are a die hard FOSS …

Interesting point, especially considering Google specifically said the source would not be available until the Galaxy Nexus was out. >year's backlog This is inaccurate, they have b…

Some people criticized AOSP because they believe the delayed release is unfair (a reasonable criticism). Other people (sheep) criticized them because they actually believed Google …

I will hazard a guess that anyone who cares about the freedoms we are discussing is capable of rooting and installing a custom ROM or researching a purchase to ensure they get a de…

Off topic but too tempting: It is safe to generalize that Android (why the quotes?) is open. There is continual activity on the Android source tree with updates for most versions o…

The comparison is invalid because iPhone/Blackberry devices are premium high cost devices with high quality control. A direct comparison will only work against other premium high c…

It does mean you can't meaningfully compare the two. Are you saying that if people started installing Android onto iPhones (if it were possible) all of a sudden the hardware failur…

What was the problem?