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I guess the next step is for them to put an 'ads' tab on the search engine and move all the ads into there.

The idea that Apple 'doesn't want apps to talk to each other' is just a lie made up to malign apple. Apple built the URL launching system and the pasteboard which together allow ap…

So I guess iOS did turn out to have ways to let apps talk to one another all along. Rather than moan that it's impossible and that iOS is 'restrictive', Ink have built a higher lev…

Google's mission is to control all of computing. Indexing the internet is only part of that.

Because they are.

I find it hard to understand why people think that softare 'should' be free. Don't you mean they think that someone else should pay for it?

Fair enough!

No - it's you that is lying: (from the patent) CLAIMS The ornamental design of an electronic device, substantially as shown and described. The picture clearly shows more than just …

This sounds like an apology. Openness is just not a high enough priority for them. It's just not their goal to release an open device otherwise they wouldn't have released this. It…

Well, I see that people have figured out why I'm quitting AOSP. There's no point being the maintainer of an Operating System that can't boot to the home screen on its flagship devi…

This document proves that the meme is false and that Apple did not attempt to protect 'rounded corners'. Apple asserted a design patent that protects the overall appearance of the …

I apologize if you really didn't know that Apple didn't make that accusation.

Fair enough - however there is no evidence of how far up the stack that data goes - accelerometers do sudden movement sensing on-chip - not via the CPU. My other points still stand…

If you are repeating that false 'rounded corners' meme then you are either paid by Samsung (who started that), or beyond reason.

Siri uses the proximity sensor to implement raise to talk. The gyro for parallax is only turned on when the screen is on. The rest of your comment is pretty much tinfoil.

It's not an Amazing find at all, given that apple has built a relatively sophisticated UI for it. It's public facing precisely because people are concerned about this kind of data …

iOS let's you choose: - Whether this information is collected at all - which specific apps can access it - whether apple can receive an anonymized copy of it to improve their maps …

If we stop doing evil, important solar processes will stop, leading to the collapse of the sun.

as long as you don't step on one barefoot

Is that a point?

In that case Apple has still 'lobbied' far less than its US competitors by holding out against prism.

Nope. I was replying to the idea that Apple is a 'lobbying juggernaut' and 'government favorite' which is demonstrably false.

Utterly false. Apple is not a lobbying juggernaut at all and spends less on lobbying than any of the other major tech companies: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76073.htm…

Judging by the comments here, people on HN hate Apple more than they hate patents. Incidentally - for those suggesting that Apple should get a taste of its own medicine, what on ea…

Clearly you don't. Giving in to the demands of whoever bombs you is not the lesser of two evils.