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The Step Detector and Step Counter platform support is an especially interesting addition. Perhaps a nod to the wearables market, with the upcoming Google watch hooking into it for some Fitness tracking smarts?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519531/what-apples-m7-m...
The Step Detector and Step Counter platform support is an especially interesting addition. Perhaps a nod to the wearables market, with the upcoming Google watch hooking into it for some Fitness tracking smarts?
Must be a response to Apple's inclusion of a dedicated movement-sensing M7 processor on the iPhone 5s. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519531/what-apples-m7-m...
KitKat isn't trademarked?
There's a deal between Google and Nestle. This has caused some consternation because many people see Nestle as Evil. Nestle engage in really shady practices - pushing formula milk in developing nations, ignoring wide spread international laws and drives to encourage breast feeding. This isn't just "giving mother's freedom to chose", it's killing little babies.
“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
wow, discussion of web DRM was much louder
Anyone know if NFC emulation will let me create an app to replace my Clipper card and work key fob? I would have guessed that NFC chips would have an embedded secret that you can't get directly.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Must be a response to Apple's inclusion of a dedicated movement-sensing M7 processor on the iPhone 5s. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519531/what-apples-m7-m...
Surely it was scheduled for inclusion previous to the M7's announcement 6 weeks ago.
* * * Late Edit * * *
So I looked through the Google public Git repo, and it looks like the initial Step_Counter functions were added in Dec 2012.[1] The hardware must've been wrapped more than 6 weeks ago, so I was probably wrong. Google must've been working on this for months ahead of time.
[1]https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/libhardwa...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Must be a response to Apple's inclusion of a dedicated movement-sensing M7 processor on the iPhone 5s. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519531/what-apples-m7-m...
Surely it was scheduled for inclusion previous to the M7's announcement 6 weeks ago.
> Android now supports the Common Encryption (CENC) for MPEG-DASH, providing a standard, multiplatform DRM scheme for managing protecting content. wow, discussion of web DRM was much louder
The true horror of "appified-zomg-everyting-in-teh-cloud" tablets, smart phones and other mobile devices is that the walled garden model leaves most people benumbed to the concept of DRM, as if it were a novocaine injection.
Then, to top it off, the combination of shitty cell phone reception along with the price of a required data plan behaves like some continuous supply of laughing gas, and net neutrality just goes out the window.
It's different when you use a real computer, because you haven't acquiesced to all the limitations of cramming every last tidbit of computation and networking into the space of a 3' x 5' index card. People stop caring about standards compliance, page rendering consistency, and the whole works. Most people are still amazed that full motion video, megapixel cameras, the internet, and gigabytes of storage can fit in the palm of their hand, and then get put on pause and stuffed in their pocket for later. We don't complain as much because we're so happy for the convenience.
The Web does not exist within the mobile domain as it does among laptops and desktops. Your standards are 1,000 times higher, sitting at a desk in a controlled environment, than they are while standing in a train station or an airport, or sitting in the back of a taxi cab.
KitKat isn't trademarked?
There's a deal between Google and Nestle. This has caused some consternation because many people see Nestle as Evil. Nestle engage in really shady practices - pushing formula milk in developing nations, ignoring wide spread international laws and drives to encourage breast feeding. This isn't just "giving mother's freedom to chose", it's killing little babies.
[1] http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/nestles-wet-dream-they-mark-...
KitKat isn't trademarked?
There's a deal between Google and Nestle. This has caused some consternation because many people see Nestle as Evil. Nestle engage in really shady practices - pushing formula milk in developing nations, ignoring wide spread international laws and drives to encourage breast feeding. This isn't just "giving mother's freedom to chose", it's killing little babies.
Engage? It was 40 years ago (or 29). I think it's time to move on.