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Come on. Few nerds like us are concerned with benchmarks and perceived performance. Most people don't know what a browser is or what's their preference in the matter, they just use whatever is installed.
Really? Most people use macs or windows pcs, and neither of those have Chrome preinstalled. Nevertheless, Chrome has plenty of users...
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>At least on Android you can write one app and then tweak it to work on different devices, previously you had to write apps as different as Android/iOS/Windows for each device - and often individual manufacturers even had multiple platforms to write for. >So I think we owe Google some congratulations. Before Android, you could write a Windows Mobile app and have it run pretty much on every Windows Mobile device and t…
"Before Android, you could write a Windows Mobile app and have it run pretty much on every Windows Mobile device" - yeah, all one million of them.
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Could be. Would be a great pick to drive Glass. Or build robots.
I was under the impression that Sergey was heading Glass.
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Your slander against Rubin, that he was the major factor, is unsubstantiated. And your 'X' sentence makes no sense, it translates to "He thought nothing was secure", huh?
His attitude towards security is well known among those attempting to help make Android devices safe for people to use. His refusal to believe that a device could be both safe to use and popular or safe to use and useful has directly led to hundreds of millions of unsafe devices around the world.
The key is finding the right balance.
> But his insight immediately struck a chord because at the time it was extremely painful developing services for mobile devices. We had a closet full of more than 100 phones and were building our software pretty much device by device. It was nearly impossible for us to make truly great mobile experiences. This is highly ironic statement given that one of the biggest pain developers trying to build mobile experiences…
I think you are missing the point of Android. Android starts with the premise "fragmentation exists, how do we make the best of it?" and goes from there. The idea that every person on the planet is going to use the same phone with the same capabilities and the same size screen is a fantasy world iOS developers live in.
I was under the impression the problem with fragmentation was along software lines—i.e., not many people have the latest android, so people can't exploit it. Hardware is much easier to adapt to.
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>At least on Android you can write one app and then tweak it to work on different devices, previously you had to write apps as different as Android/iOS/Windows for each device - and often individual manufacturers even had multiple platforms to write for. >So I think we owe Google some congratulations. Before Android, you could write a Windows Mobile app and have it run pretty much on every Windows Mobile device and t…
> Before Android, you could write a Windows Mobile app and have it run pretty much on every Windows Mobile device and the same with Blackberry and iPhones. Considering that Android pre-dates the iPhone (and thus iOS), the statement isn't accurate. This article cites 2004 and the iPhone didn't debut until the middle of 2007. It was indeed a nightmare, not only in the development process but in distribution. Good luck…
[1] http://readwrite.com/2012/08/07/4-real-secrets-weve-learned-...
[2] http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-08-16/google-buys-a...
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His attitude towards security is well known among those attempting to help make Android devices safe for people to use. His refusal to believe that a device could be both safe to use and popular or safe to use and useful has directly led to hundreds of millions of unsafe devices around the world.
He's not wrong. There's always a tradeoff between security and usability. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/security_vs_us... The key is finding the right balance.
In any case, it should be a tradeoff the user controls. People have drastically different needs, think OpenBSD versus Windows for a usability/security tradeoff.
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His attitude towards security is well known among those attempting to help make Android devices safe for people to use. His refusal to believe that a device could be both safe to use and popular or safe to use and useful has directly led to hundreds of millions of unsafe devices around the world.
He's not wrong. There's always a tradeoff between security and usability. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/security_vs_us... The key is finding the right balance.
I can think of a dozen things that could be done to Android to both mitigate against current threats and exploited weaknesses and either not interfere with or improve user experience. Unfortunately, we are long past the point where fundamental architecture changes can be made to Android. We are stuck with a system that allows execution of downloaded code at runtime, that never updates, and that blames the user for security problems. Android would have been wise to adopt some of the best security decisions from iOS.
Andy Rubin was the major factor responsible for insecure Android devices. He thought it was impossible to be both secure and 'X' for any 'X'. Meanwhile, Andy Rubin's replacement is Sundar Pichai, SVP for Chrome and ChromeOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai If you care at all about the security of Android mobile devices, this is probably a good sign. EDIT: I wonder if this helped move Andy out the door? htt…
Not to mention that Chrome has figured out how to push updates, while a majority of Androids are still running a version released over two years ago. If Google can start pushing auto-updates to all of its devices, that would be one of the greatest improvements ever made to Android. Also, one of Chrome's most touted features is performance, which has always been Android's weakest point. Hopefully he'll be willing to a…
Since Sundar Pichai is the head of ChromeOS, perhaps this move is part of a larger move to unify Android and ChromeOS.