Does this mean we'll get Google Now cards for non-gmail accounts now?
Google announces Android for Work
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#62> a dedicated work profile that isolates and protects work data Oh wow, can this be used to just create a separate profile for every app? That way I can run Uber or Line without giving them every permission to everything? This is the biggest reason I do not install apps. Every "famous" app requests so many permissions it's just stupid. And not to mention the weirdness of some of them, like "WiFi Device Information".…
This is more targeted for people who have an enterprise domain (Google Apps for Work, Blackberry, Citrix, etc.) That said, if you want to create a separate profile for Uber or Line, you can already do so on Android 5.0 and above: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/2865483?hl=en&ref_to...
Please correct me if I am wrong but I thought this was for sharing your phone with someone else or sharing your phone between two or more Google accounts...
I think Facebook Messenger, Line, and the like will still have access to all permissions even if you switch to a different user and install the apps there...
That being said, guest mode is really nice on my nexus 5 so my curious friends on iPhone can log in to their google account on my phone as a guest and test drive android.
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> Seriously why hasn't someone made a smart phone that "transforms" into a larger screen form factor when connected to a monitor? It has been done repeatedly. Motorola and Ubuntu come to mind. Both were failures. I don't want my phone to turn into a desktop. Desktops are all about muscle, massive storage, gigabit connections, etc. Phones are about saving battery life.
Desktops don't mean any of those things, crappy old computers with none of your characteristics are very common. Technology has improved significantly in the 3 - 4 years since Motorola made theirs, and Ubuntu's failed as a crowdsourcing campaign. Nothing has been proven.
I interpreted Ubuntu's failure more a statement of lack of confidence in the ability of Ubuntu to execute on this idea than as a statement against the idea's ultimate potential.
Samsung, Google, Apple, or Nokisoft (MS+Nokia) could do it.
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#64This would be a lot more compelling if, when I got a Google voice voicemail and saw that in my Gmail app on my "Google Experience" Moto-G and clicked on the "listen to it" link it didn't just vanish leaving me with an open browser and no message. I like my phone, it works for me, but the sheer disconnectedness of it all is really jarring. Things show up in random places, or not at all, (especially media), and there i…
> same text message appears in my GVoice app, my Gmail app, and as a text message in Messaging.
The "official" way to deal with this is to go to the Google Voice site and turn of emailing yourself every text. Then install the Hangouts app and enable SMS through Hangouts. Then disable notifications in the Google Voice and Messaging apps.
Result: On phone Hangouts handles texts + voicemail + Google chat, and on desktop GMail (or the Hangouts extension for Chrome) handles them.
At least, that's my understanding of what Google's intended best practice is.
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I honestly don't understand why this is down-voted, more "sandboxed" apps is one of the reasons I use iOS as well.
Just for the sake of clarity, do you mean that there are more apps that are sandboxed on iOS or that all apps have a higher level of sandboxing on iOS?
The second option, that all apps have a higher level of sandboxing. Until iOS 8 apps couldn't do anything to modify the OS besides adding push notifications and maybe a page in the settings.
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I honestly don't understand why this is down-voted, more "sandboxed" apps is one of the reasons I use iOS as well.
Just for the sake of clarity, do you mean that there are more apps that are sandboxed on iOS or that all apps have a higher level of sandboxing on iOS?
More "sandboxed" in the sense that iOS apps start in a small sandbox that gets progressively and opportunistically larger. Instead of demanding all permissions upon installation, they demand them contemporaneously with attempted access to certain resources. The idea is that user consent is more informed.
In contrast, Android apps demand all of their permissions up front.
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#67I love the name "Google Play for Work."
"Google Play for Work" is as bad as "Playstation" is good. They really shouldn't let this awkward branding stuff happen.
A bus station is a where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. So what is the purpose of a workstation? And more importantly, what is the purpose of a PlayStation? ;).
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"Google Play for Work" is as bad as "Playstation" is good. They really shouldn't let this awkward branding stuff happen.
A bus station is a where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. So what is the purpose of a workstation? And more importantly, what is the purpose of a PlayStation? ;).
A bus station is also where a bus starts. Ditto for trains and train stations. ;)
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#69Does this mean we'll get Google Now cards for non-gmail accounts now?
Ha, good one
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#70> a dedicated work profile that isolates and protects work data Oh wow, can this be used to just create a separate profile for every app? That way I can run Uber or Line without giving them every permission to everything? This is the biggest reason I do not install apps. Every "famous" app requests so many permissions it's just stupid. And not to mention the weirdness of some of them, like "WiFi Device Information".…
You can use Xprivacy with Xposed to feed an app fake or empty data on a permission by permission basis. This works better than blocking permissions because sometimes apps don't fail gracefully when a permission is denied.