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voodoo123on Android AOSP maintainer quits

This sounds like an apology. Openness is just not a high enough priority for them. It's just not their goal to release an open device otherwise they wouldn't have released this.

It's their goal to do whatever it takes to compete aggressively and if openness can win them PR, they'll do it, but it isn't a goal in itself.

voodoo123on Android AOSP maintainer quits

Well, I see that people have figured out why I'm quitting AOSP.

There's no point being the maintainer of an Operating System that can't boot to the home screen on its flagship device for lack of GPU support, especially when I'm getting the blame for something that I don't have authority to fix myself and that I had anticipated and escalated more than 6 months ahead.

So much for all that noise from Google about 'openness'. The detractors were right.

voodoo123on iPhone logs my complete movement profile

This document proves that the meme is false and that Apple did not attempt to protect 'rounded corners'.

Apple asserted a design patent that protects the overall appearance of the iPhone - the 'trade dress'. Rounded corners are one of many attributes that describe the appearance of the iPhone. If you copy enough attributes - as the court ruled that Samsung did, you have copied the appearance.

Taking a single element out of context is a lie that Samsung originated, designed to give the appearance that Apple attempted to protect a ridiculously broad concept which the documents show that they did not do.

voodoo123on iPhone logs my complete movement profile

I apologize if you really didn't know that Apple didn't make that accusation.

voodoo123on iPhone logs my complete movement profile

Fair enough - however there is no evidence of how far up the stack that data goes - accelerometers do sudden movement sensing on-chip - not via the CPU.

My other points still stand.

voodoo123on iPhone logs my complete movement profile

If you are repeating that false 'rounded corners' meme then you are either paid by Samsung (who started that), or beyond reason.

voodoo123on iPhone logs my complete movement profile

Siri uses the proximity sensor to implement raise to talk.

The gyro for parallax is only turned on when the screen is on.

The rest of your comment is pretty much tinfoil.

voodoo123on iPhone logs my complete movement profile

It's not an Amazing find at all, given that apple has built a relatively sophisticated UI for it.

It's public facing precisely because people are concerned about this kind of data collection. This way you can make an informed choice about what apps can see about you and what to send to apple.

voodoo123on iPhone logs my complete movement profile

iOS let's you choose:

- Whether this information is collected at all - which specific apps can access it - whether apple can receive an anonymized copy of it to improve their maps

The data is stored securely on your device and you can see it delete it.

What more control do you want?

voodoo123on The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip

If we stop doing evil, important solar processes will stop, leading to the collapse of the sun.

voodoo123on The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip

as long as you don't step on one barefoot

voodoo123on Obama administration vetos Apple iPhone 4, 3G iPad 2 product ban [pdf]

Is that a point?

voodoo123on Obama administration vetos Apple iPhone 4, 3G iPad 2 product ban [pdf]

In that case Apple has still 'lobbied' far less than its US competitors by holding out against prism.

voodoo123on Obama administration vetos Apple iPhone 4, 3G iPad 2 product ban [pdf]

Nope. I was replying to the idea that Apple is a 'lobbying juggernaut' and 'government favorite' which is demonstrably false.

voodoo123on Obama administration vetos Apple iPhone 4, 3G iPad 2 product ban [pdf]

Utterly false. Apple is not a lobbying juggernaut at all and spends less on lobbying than any of the other major tech companies: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76073.html

Apple is also taking a serious beating from Obama's DOJ. So clearly not 'a favorite' of the governments.

voodoo123on Obama administration vetos Apple iPhone 4, 3G iPad 2 product ban [pdf]

Judging by the comments here, people on HN hate Apple more than they hate patents.

Incidentally - for those suggesting that Apple should get a taste of its own medicine, what on earth are you talking about? Since when did Apple have competitors products banned?

voodoo123on Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport

Clearly you don't. Giving in to the demands of whoever bombs you is not the lesser of two evils.

voodoo123on DOJ Calls for Apple to End Book Deals, Link to Rival Bookstores

What exactly did Apple's competitors lose?

voodoo123on DOJ Calls for Apple to End Book Deals, Link to Rival Bookstores

If the remedies are structural ones designed to cripple Apple's ability to compete on a level playing field, they certainly is an argument for limiting them.

If Apple is forced to sell Amazon's books, Amazon should be forced to sell Apple's books on the e-ink Kindle.

The argument that Apple did something wrong therefore a destructive remedy is justified is absurd because it harms consumers even further by damaging the competitive market even more.

voodoo123on DOJ Calls for Apple to End Book Deals, Link to Rival Bookstores

Why is this being downvoted? It's clearly true.

voodoo123on DOJ Calls for Apple to End Book Deals, Link to Rival Bookstores

Perhaps, but it's an insane solution in a competitive environment where the other major players have actual monopolies and are using predatory pricing to enter other markets.

Apple has clearly overreached, but this kind of remedy is not about restoring competition.

voodoo123on Justice Dept. unveils fix for Apple e-book price fixing

Forcing Apple to change it's contracts is one thing, but forcing it to make it easier for the existing monopolist to sell their products clearly demonstrates that the justice department has been corrupted by Amazon in this case.

Will they require Amazon to allow Apple to provide their own store for the e-ink Kindles too?

voodoo123on Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport

If you consider terrorism to be a valid means of advancing a political agenda, then you are justifying it.

Your proposal implies that killing civilians should earn you a seat at the negotiating table.

voodoo123on Here’s what real reform of the NSA looks like

This isn't an appropriate forum for politics. There are plenty of other venues online for civic debate.

voodoo123on Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport

The Irish terrorists didn't cease their attacks because of the British method of fighting them. They succeeded in bombing mainland Britain 14 times, and they caused more than 50,000 casualties including 3,500 deaths. London rail stations to this day have no trash cans because the IRA repeatedly left bombs in them.

They stopped their attacks when their demands were met.

I fail to see what you are advocating other than giving in to terrorism.

voodoo123on Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport

You said it in support of the UK's approach to terrorism. Which was to capitulate to the terrorists.

voodoo123on Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport

You: "Wouldn't an outcome analogous to the modern-day UK and Ireland be great? People getting along well, no violence, reasonably stable governments? I don't see why you paint this as a bad outcome."

That outcome also included dead British cabinet ministers, civilians and infrastructure and decades of fear and hatred.

voodoo123on Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport

Right but you are justifying the terrorist means (killing civilians randomly) based on their ends (inducing political chance).

voodoo123on Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport

I never said anything about voting or not based on terrorist actions.

mikeash said it was ok not to defend so hard against terrorism because the outcome was good. I was refuting that.