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- Somebody Else’s Cloud … based ccNC infotainment stack that I believe is going to be replaced with Android Auto in the next HMG platform) feels to me to be a colossal waste …
- It's (not) the economy stupid; gaining convenience at the expense of agency … You don’t have a choice because it’s iOS or Android. I suppose a lot of this is also based on the perspective of someone who’s …
- What Are We Doing Here, Exactly?; LLMs Are Playful, Actually … Generative People Personalities; Content Distribution Networks (Taylor's Version) ( archive.is ), me, this newsletter, 27 October, 2023 ↩︎ CARROT Weather for iOS and Android ( archive.is ) ↩︎
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different … decided to just give up; like cars; right, there’s Apple CarPlay and Android Auto; the car manufacturers just straight gave up and said sure, we’ll do …
- Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr; Governance in the Early Days of a Better Nation … Polycam for iOS and Android ↩︎ Software and its Discontents, Part 2: An Explosion of Complexity , Kellan Elliott-McCrea, 23 January, 2023 ↩︎ dateforce.app , "the world's first Dating …
- What it means to be PlayStation with Netflix in the room; What's Simlish for Metaverse? … kind of game that fits technically on a mobile device across iOS and Android and tablets, but also the kind of game that fits into the "game you …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect … PlayStation has a choice as to whether to show up on iOS or Android but those are hardware/software platforms. PlayStation could show up and decide to play …
- Conan, What Is Worst In Life, And Why? … Google/Android has a campaign site to pressure Apple to adopt RCS and it's notable to me because you don't normally see this kind of sophistication …
- ... for the mind? … Is this just a size thing? Is it that when you've got 1.8 billion active devices (iOS devices), or over 3 billion active devices (Android), and …
- Even Shorter Bullet Points … This isn't for public services, but internal government services, but still! I need to try this out, and I suspect this is for Android: but you can …
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15 … I mean, even real-life organized crime uses off-the-shelf OEM Android-based handsets with custom software . The other thing the general has is “small, clever devices …
- Three Things … That means that an otherwise boringly-titled blog post like Making our Android Studio Apps Reactive with UI Components & Redux actually means Netflix created an in-house mobile …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … Eden’s point is that we’re back at square one, what with iOS and Android now asking/reminding you that whichever App wants permission for whatever system …
- Take your time reading this one … It strikes me that a lot of the conversation around the use of technological tools to aid in contact tracing — in particular smartphone applications on iOS and Android …
- Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me? … hang on, I get a digital wellbeing dashboard on Android and a screentime dashboard with management controls on iOS but… not a dashboard about what sort of data …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … Here is a paper about ethical subroutines in Star Trek, titled “ Evil Doctor, Ethical Android: Star Trek’s Instantiation of Consciousness in Subroutines ” A Twitter account that I …
- Snow Crashing … Co-operative or pre-emptive multitasking would totally have futzed with smooth rendering of The Black Sun, so either Hiro’s running on Android or for some reason …
- What’s the target? … This Time I saw that Mark Gurman over at Bloomberg is reporting Essential Products (Andy Rubin’s thing after running Android at Google) are developing a new phone …
- Change your organization, or change your organization … they are )? Well it turns out that Android smartphones are also probably really insecure because of how they handle AT commands . Those of you of a certain age …
- Nobody expects the hiatus newsletter … Manufacturer supported Android software exists (in part because Android provides access to NFC hardware) so one could use an Android phone instead of the reader device which has …
- Fully Connected, Feed Forward … you don't need to ask for permission if it's in the TOS, so just build something that allows you access (hi, Android and iOS app permissions …
- OVERNIGHT SUCCESS … And it was *pretty* interesting, and a few months later, Ingress launched for Android. Now the meeting was a bit weird, and I say this because I was …
- The usual: nouns, adverbs, adjective here and there … It's something that can sit in a bog-standard Android phone but is perfectly capable of being the place that anyone in a family or group of …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … Android Yeah, I don't use Android. Sorry. I get that Google Android versus all the Not Google Androids is an interesting thing but even so THIS IS …
- The Product Wars; Emergency _________ Hologram … Anyway, here's the onebox:) So I guess I should've checked with my Android phone or whatever and actually done a OK Google, and now I'm …
- Bob Rife Is Real; Digital Secure Confusion … No! The answer is actually "HSBC Mobile Banking supports iOS and Android devices. Apple iOS v6.0 and above. Android 2.3 and up." So, you know. Not …
- Sending Signals; So We Solved Publishing; 2015 (1) … This reminded me of the YotaPhone[2], an Android smartphone that is a regular phone on one side, and has an e-ink display where the back of …
- "Everybody"; The Webb Scale; Algorithms … EVERYBODY CAN RIDE Use your iPhone or Android to board. Or if you don't have a smartphone, you can print a paper pass. I just want to …
- Web Directions South; A Thousand Songs In Your Pocket; Odds … piece of hardware, but it seems like no-one's sure what problem Android Wear is solving other than "wearables are a place where we need to show …
- The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density … substrate that's been deployed in our cities, and whether you're Team Android or Team iOS, there are enough of them out there for you to think …
- Here In My Car … This isn't a hard problem, because you've already got lots of (anonymized) data from Android phones about where people live and where people want to be …
- I'm a Barista; More "Valley"; More Uber; They Create Jobs, Don't They?; Dumb Telcos … Stop hitting yourself in the face, telcos. [1] Verizon Preps Challenge to Google’s App Store - The Information (paywall) [2] Verizon denies plan to launch its own Android …
- 17.5; Other Newsletters Are Available; SNOWPIERCER WALKTHROUGH V12.03 … This is a walkthrough for the first-person action adventure game, NOT a walkthrough or strategy guide for the iPhone/Android game TINY SNOWPIERCER by Nimblebit studios. SNOWPIERCER …
- Another Way; Bottom-Up; Oh, Is That The Time … There's a bit of a discussion going on about what Android Wear feels like, and what sort of space it opens up compared to pulling a phone …
- The Material (3); Odds … The current crop of Android Wear devices - and other smart watches, like the Galaxy Gear - see wrist as interface. Wrist as interface that necessitates brightness emitting attention sucking …
- Probationary Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Blog Unbundled; A World of Connected Objects … my head, because Sitwell. (The whole thing appeared to run on Windows and Android/Windows Tablets). Touchscreens didn't feel particularly responsive, the interfaces weren't great (some …
- Board-Level Algorithms; You Speak GIF, Right?; Intent; Odds … Design Evasions that fall under the category of preservation (see: Microsoft), copying (see: Android) and delegating (see: Samsung and Project Ara). I wrote in a previous episode[2 …
- The Book and The Library; More Responsive OS … What's the digital media equivalent of a book? An Android or iPad tablet doesn't count, I don't think. Still too complicated. Multiple use. Does different …
- The iPad; The Difficulty; Tools; Silly … With iPads Retina and Air, you have some pretty great hardware, similarly so in the Android space. For the iPad, it's expanding out and (I touch on …
- On Design; New Aesthetic Zeitgeist Bingo; Odds … from the buckets of Chinese OEMs churning out cheap Android hardware to Indian hardware developers like Datawind[5]. In the case of designing for actual people and design …
- Yet More VR; TV is still fucked; Vox.com; Ugh … an ARM/Android based streaming media platform hooked up to the usual suspects of content providers as well as the device owner's with some nice touches here …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … system of geospatial positioning satellites, plotting a glowing route on a heads-down Android display in a car that packs, well, lots of potential energy in the metaphor …
- Wearable Reckons; Mirror Neurons; More Google … Google just released/announced an Android SDK[1] for them, and apparently if Apple doesn't release an iWatch in the next 60 days, the end will be …
- IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends … that orbit you, and I have to admit that the circular watch-face Android Wearable UI with big flashing things and readable text[1] is probably the best …
- Shorts; Code as Law; The Real Revolution; The Flip … easy digital distribution as well as pretty much approaching the point of "free Android smartphone with your cereal" mean that the chances of something for the rest of …
- The Cult of Making, Shooting Fish In Jean Michel Jarre's Barrel … And anyway, if we're really checking, Wikipedia also reckons that as of Q2 2013, 1,082mm Android phones have been sold[5]. So that's another $324 …