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That and Tree Style Tabs are the reason I left Chrome. The path that firefox has been on for the last few months is sad.

iphones before the 5 had 3.5 in displays even the 5 has just a 4 in display, so they are even smaller (and thinner and lighter) than a Galaxy Nexus

Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/49445260575/quasar-puls...

It already has, it's called Delete Account

With the current scheme house of cards was outside netflix within a week (if not the same day) So content producers are already doomed, why saddle html5 with DRM and binary blobs?

Since Feb 5: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/02/05/editorial-we-do-not-...

Well he would be sentenced to thousands of years in jail not made to serve them all against nature and death. When someone is given several consecutive life sentences no one goes looking for them when they are reborn!

We've reached out to Facebook for clarification on its new policy, and also to Google to ask if it's aware a Play Store app is updating itself through alternate channels. Google's terms of service do not allow apps "that cause users to unknowingly download or install applications from sources outside of Google Play." The important question is whether Google feels Facebook is being clear enough that this is not a Play Store download. - http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/15/4107376/facebook-android-a...

It would amuse me if Google were to drop Facebook from the play store over this.

Thanks for your input. Now I can see how that would fuse the systems and how that would make for better web apps that had the strengths of native apps (Something like Firefox OS I figure).

But would that improve the Android platform? I'm wondering if it would be confusing or complicated for users, getting some apps from play and other from the Chrome store. Having apps in the launcher and some other apps you have to run from Chrome. Although at that point Google could merge the Chrome store and Google Play and have shortcuts for Chrome apps that launch a chrome-less browser to look native. Now that I've though about it I think it could work rather well, but I'm still wondering what would be the benefit for the users of Android.

Edit: Now that I've seen vibrunazo's comment I think I get it. If Google build a web programming api that is the same as Android's programming for one is programming for the other. I think that would be truly awesome indeed, I enjoy developing for android, not so much for web.

Shouldn't it be a web browser, on top of an operating system, on top of the linux kernel? Like chrome on android or ubuntu?

I also think he could do a great job leading the nexus program or something alike in motorola, but I feel he'll just hang around for a little while so as not to create much fuzz before leaving google entirely.

How would that work? What would it be like? Android is powered by native apps, Chrome by cloud apps. Chrome already runs on Android. They have different approaches and I don't see how they how they could form a coherent whole or how one would benefit from a merger with the other. :/

I think you just spoiled the plot for After Earth

The 'Fellowship Plan' was designed by committee, parties with vested interests, etc., what other outcome could be expected?

Except that isn't it either, Android bundles 1 through 4 where named Humble Bundle for Android.

I used to play Dungeon Defenders on my phone until it was retired and liked it. Beat Hazard: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/12/03/game-review-shoot-em... Super Hexagon: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/01/19/new-game-terry-cavan... The other games are debuting their android versions but the iOS originals have positive reviews.

Downloadable content, what used to be sold as expansions when distributed in CDs.

I worked for the largest cellphone carrier in my country. I had write permission for the production db (not to all views, though) from my second week there onwards, the first week I used the credentials of the guy training me. The guy training knew the whole thing was wrong, mainly because once he ran a query that froze the db for half day. I was not a developer I was working in the help desk.

No malware, I linked to the 'print' page of the article which has a cleaner design but Forbes.com is doing a redirect it seems.

Here: https://plus.google.com/106913700595933476859/posts

And the app had to be sideloaded because Play said it was incompatible with my device.

Sigh, but we can laugh about it: https://plus.google.com/106913700595933476859/posts

Indeed, at the rate companies are pushing and customers buying updated versions of gadgets a program like this is way better than dumping unsold or outdated tablets on a landfill.

Windows seems to have to have the support, but is not widely used http://techreport.com/review/23631/how-windows-8-scaling-fai...

Well http://developer.android.com/ is down, so google does use GAE for some of its properties?

Fortunately now there are serious alternatives to the Macbook Air http://www.anandtech.com/show/5843/asus-zenbook-prime-ux21a-...

Some Androids have a separate volume control for notifications. Settings -> Audio(Sound) -> Volume. (I think it may be in all but not exposed by the UI, so you may want to try widgetsoid or some other widget to expose the volume controls).

Failing that I think you can set the notification ringtone to "Silent".

I can see google wanting to have your credit card number in file to ease future purchases ;)

I thought you raised an interesting point and posted your comment over there. Romain Guy answered : 99% of the drawing operations performed by the UI involve alpha blending. We have optimizations of our own to limit overdraw (for instance layers generate meshes to avoid blending completely transparent fragments). So there's overdraw, just not as much h nS

I think he may be refering to the GIL.