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> We even got married and had kids because of orkut. This has a totally different meaning in finnish as orkut means "orgasms" in casual speak.
Wait, so the guy's name means orgasms? Oh dear oh dear. This must cause problems for Turkish men in Finland. Kind of like the unfortunate Indian family name Dikshit.
I'm not a social networking fan, but this is very interesting. We'll see where it goes.
The bigger question is what is their business model? Same as fb, to sell ads?
Performing analytics on user content gives you even more information.
Information means $$.
Orkut was our go-to social network as teens, before we all moved to Facebook in 2009. I'm was going to join this out of sheer nostalgia, but it appears to be lacking a web app. I'm curious as to why they went with ONLY native Android / iOS apps. That will not only drive away people like me, who prefer to use things from a desktop web browser, but also people in developing countries who might not have access to a smar…
I do appreciate the importance of optimizing for mobile as a priority but share your sentiment in the poor experience left for those who us who actually like to use our laptops/desktops for some activities.
Watch the trend reverse once form factors that are both portable and usable as primary workstations (for light work) become the norm (like MS and Ubuntu's vision of a phone that can become your laptop in a dock)
The HTTPS version of the site presents a cert for hello.com, which breaks the site for me.
I'm echoing what others are saying: no web version means I won't bother at all. My phone has access to multiple great browsers. Building a good lightweight web app means I can access the content from anywhere without having to deal with annoyances of push notifications or (as much) creepy tracking. My favorite example of a mobile web app is currently Twitter Mobile [0]. I even like using it from my desktop. It's very…
Is there a way to run Android apps in a VM on Linux?
A VM for phone applications would be similar to a browser. A browser runs websites in a safe environment. A way to run apps in a safe environment would be nice.
Yikes, crashed during registration, then after restarting it wouldn't let me upload a square profile picture (blocking progress on the crop screen), then once I took another picture it gave me a "Backend error" on the next screen, once again blocking progress. I give up. I hate to be negative, and I usually would cut a new app some slack, but the whole reason I am trying this is that I expected a high level of qualit…
To the developers: Give me a website or leave me alone.
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Wait, so the guy's name means orgasms? Oh dear oh dear. This must cause problems for Turkish men in Finland. Kind of like the unfortunate Indian family name Dikshit.
My last name is koc (turkish..) and it's funny to observe english speaking people trying not to spell it like "cock".
B. I had a lot of issues signing up. White screens of death, inability to progress further. Had to restart the app no less than 4 times to complete registration.
C. Now that I am registered, I see a "Welcome to your folio" screen that doesn't let me do anything.
What did I just download?
I'm echoing what others are saying: no web version means I won't bother at all. My phone has access to multiple great browsers. Building a good lightweight web app means I can access the content from anywhere without having to deal with annoyances of push notifications or (as much) creepy tracking. My favorite example of a mobile web app is currently Twitter Mobile [0]. I even like using it from my desktop. It's very…
Seconded. Is there a way to run Android apps in a VM on Linux? A VM for phone applications would be similar to a browser. A browser runs websites in a safe environment. A way to run apps in a safe environment would be nice.
Edit: instructions.
I downloaded Genymotion from https://www.genymotion.com/pricing-and-licensing/ (Individual, Basic, which costs no money). It's enough to run Android but you don't have Google Play.
I followed these general directions to install it https://inthecheesefactory.com/blog/how-to-install-google-se...
However the filetrip link didn't work (and I don't know if I want to trust it) and the google apps failed to install. I googled and eventually downloaded these files:
ARM to x86 translation: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/guide-genymo...
Google Play: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591023225177410 (banks_dynamic_gapps)
The latter is for Android 6 so you should run an Android 6 image on your emulated device.
My computer is still fine after installing those two files in the Android emulator but I don't take responsibility. Don't know how verified they are.