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http://www.androidauthority.com/what-the-hell-google-150901/

He coudlve worded it better, but, yes, seriously yes. Google shows off, intentionally or not, what all can be done, then do shit all about it, I mostly don't buy non official accessories, and waiting on their promises is getting old. Apple consistently and constantly beats everyone else with the number of accessories for their line, the Nexus line is about as standard as it can get, how about getting on with it...

Really? Most accessories for the iDevices tend to be third party. Google should work more with third-party accessory makers if they can't handle it in house.
 
Heads-up, I updated my own app a few days ago, and one new feature is a 'daydream' screensaver option (if you're on JB). Feel free to go poke it and let me know of any requests/bugs- I'm currently adding a place search option so it'll really be pictures near anywhere (you can already pan around the map to do this)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pook.picturesnearme

(It's free ob.)
 
Really? Most accessories for the iDevices tend to be third party. Google should work more with third-party accessory makers if they can't handle it in house.
This is the very point. There are only very few versions of Apple products, and the average buyer is well-funded, so producing third party accessoires is easy as well as profitable.

For Android there is a ton of different devices, and the average buyer is, with all due respect, not as well funded. So as a manufacturer of accessoires, you'd have to make loads of different versions and in turn won't sell as many. Both cuts your profit by a good margin.

The simple consequence is that there will be much less accessoires for any of the Android devices.
 
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Yeah but the Nexus series is more or less what we consider the standard android device, and accessories for that, like samsung stuff which is quite a lot, should be a given, since Google has shown off so many but failed to deliver...
 
This is the very point. There are only very few versions of Apple products, and the average buyer is well-funded, so producing third party accessoires is easy as well as profitable.

For Android there is a ton of different devices, and the average buyer is, with all due respect, not as well funded. So as a manufacturer of accessoires, you'd have to make loads of different versions and in turn won't sell as many. Both cuts your profit by a good margin.

The simple consequence is that there will be much less accessoires for any of the Android devices.

You didn't read the article, did you? The point being made was that Nexus devices in particular don't have proper accessories available, not Android devices in general. One of the counter examples was another Android device (Galaxy SIII) which had plenty of accessories available early on in its life-cycle.
 
You didn't read the article, did you? The point being made was that Nexus devices in particular don't have proper accessories available, not Android devices in general. One of the counter examples was another Android device (Galaxy SIII) which had plenty of accessories available early on in its life-cycle.
Nope! :mrgreen:
 
So Samsung has made a 4.5" Super AMOLED Plus phone called the Galaxy Express with LTE, a dual-core processor and running 4.1 Jelly Bean and it has a screen resolution of 800?480 (207 PPI)?!?!?!?

What's next, the Samsung Galaxy 8-bit?


Unrelated: HTC are holding media events in London and New York on February 19. Android Central have been invited so it must be for a new Android phone.
 
Hopefully it will be the HTC M7. Rumoured to have a 4.7-inch, 1920 x 1080 resolution, 468ppi display, a 1.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage space, 13 megapixel rear camera and 2 megapixel front camera with 1080p video recording, it will also sport HTC Sense 5.
 
So Samsung has made a 4.5" Super AMOLED Plus phone called the Galaxy Express with LTE, a dual-core processor and running 4.1 Jelly Bean and it has a screen resolution of 800?480 (207 PPI)?!?!?!?

What's next, the Samsung Galaxy 8-bit?


Unrelated: HTC are holding media events in London and New York on February 19. Android Central have been invited so it must be for a new Android phone.

That's only 0.2 inches larger than a Galaxy S II (same screen resolution), and I can attest from personally owning one, the screen looks really good. I have to hold the thing two inches from my face and then I can barely make out individual pixels. Uncomfortably small text is still perfectly readable. So what's wrong with it in a cheap phone?
 
I was browsing in Incognito Mode earlier today (I was, uh, "fapping to porn", you could say), and was reminded of a concern I have: while the browser isn't keeping track of anything I do, can I be sure the same is true of the keyboard? A lot of keyboards try to predict the next word based on your typing history, which can expose what searches you've been making*. My work around at the moment is to use Swype for general typing, and switch to the built in Android keyboard (with predictive text permanently disabled) when going incognito, but is there a way for keyboards to automatically switch into their own incognito mode once the browser does?

*an older version of Swype even failed to recognize a password field, once. I had to delete the entire predictive text database once I realized it was auto-completing the rest of my password after typing the first letter...
 
Got light flow lite for some nifty color LED notifications, then i learn it sort of takes over the LED and doesnt let whatsapp or any other app with built in light work, unless you buy the full version of light flow for 2.5$ which has "app support". I DONT WANT YOUR APP SUPPORT, STOP BLOCKING MY OWN APPS LIGHTS THEN CHARGING ME FOR IT. #firstworldproblems
 
I was browsing in Incognito Mode earlier today (I was, uh, "fapping to porn", you could say), and was reminded of a concern I have: while the browser isn't keeping track of anything I do, can I be sure the same is true of the keyboard? A lot of keyboards try to predict the next word based on your typing history, which can expose what searches you've been making*. My work around at the moment is to use Swype for general typing, and switch to the built in Android keyboard (with predictive text permanently disabled) when going incognito, but is there a way for keyboards to automatically switch into their own incognito mode once the browser does?

*an older version of Swype even failed to recognize a password field, once. I had to delete the entire predictive text database once I realized it was auto-completing the rest of my password after typing the first letter...

That's an interesting question and I do know that SwiftKey lets you opt in to letting them glean some insight in your typing style. I don't know if there's any keyboards that detect a browser's incognito mode.
 
Got light flow lite for some nifty color LED notifications, then i learn it sort of takes over the LED and doesnt let whatsapp or any other app with built in light work, unless you buy the full version of light flow for 2.5$ which has "app support". I DONT WANT YOUR APP SUPPORT, STOP BLOCKING MY OWN APPS LIGHTS THEN CHARGING ME FOR IT. #firstworldproblems

You should have seen it a few months ago. By default, it was lighting up for Twitter notifications, and, since Twitter wasn't supposed to be included in the lite version, you couldn't switch it off.
 
Got light flow lite for some nifty color LED notifications, then i learn it sort of takes over the LED and doesnt let whatsapp or any other app with built in light work, unless you buy the full version of light flow for 2.5$ which has "app support". I DONT WANT YOUR APP SUPPORT, STOP BLOCKING MY OWN APPS LIGHTS THEN CHARGING ME FOR IT. #firstworldproblems
Use AOKP. It can do what lightflow can out of the box and does not block apps.
 
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